> People in cities can’t see stars anymore, so this complaint about the new satellite constellation is almost academic.

There are designated areas of dark skies, and around observatories there are limits as to the lighting that can be used around.

But all that is being rendered irrelevant - there are no areas that won't be affected by these satellites - that's the whole point, they will cover pretty much everywhere.

And these are professional astronomers saying that they are affected. The fact that you, and others, don't really care and aren't affected isn't the point. There's a very real risk that these satellites will kill Earth-based professional astronomy, and large scale space astronomy isn't cost-effective.