I hope getting internet in the forest is worth screwing up groundbased astronomy for everyone.
You won’t even see them, early on, you could but Starlink and SpaceX have taken steps to alleviate the issue...
After Starlink, Amazon is starting up a competing service with FCC approval for several thousand LEO satellites...
As long as it isn’t Iridium Flares 2.0, it should be ok.
"Screwing up ground based astronomy" is a vast overstatement of the problem.
The satellites are only a problem while they are lit by the sun but the telescope is in darkness. Most of the night is not effected. This is not the death of ground based astronomy.
Plus there are major implications and uses for a World Wide Web that really is "Work Wide". It is a lot more than internet in the forest.
Nothing is sacred. They'll screw up everything. As it is now it's getting difficult to even obtain a 60 second exposure with some space junk photo bombing the image. And they have plans to put up thousands of pieces of more space junk.
It's like traveling down some scenic highway and seeing some gawdy billboards completely destroy the view.
How well would you appreciate the ability to have observation time available for booking by an enthusiast astronomer, from a space based platform? With enough cameras of modest capability pointed about the heavens, finding a sufficient quorum out of the proposed constellation of 42,000 satellites, pointed toward the desired vantage point, shouldn’t be that difficult. Observations of any object, at any time, regardless of your Earth-time could be accomplished by combining multiple images.
The maximum resolving power of a telescope a bit more than the diameter of the Earth, should be available from combined optics placed in LEO. As the useful ground based optics are typically limited to about 8 inch/20 cm for amateur astronomy due to atmospheric distortion, this would be a step up.
For what it is worth, the satellites are much less visually intrusive once they reach their designated station. For those still using film for capture purposes, there is the problem of tracks appearing from an orbital objects reflection.
A series of CMOS camera captures taken with a low-error tracking system does facilitate image stacking to improve the resolution of observations; and, allow editing out the undesired noise (tracks) at the same time. An iPad Pro could do this image processing task in real-time with a proper dedicated app. There are some working this out now. An illustration of a crude image stacking process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk_VOpzQ-rk