Users would rather not pay that, so we are stuck with craptastic spyware that is selling their data to google, facebook, the NSA, the Chinese communist party and that organ harvester from Moldova.
The real price of delivery of software over the Internet is zero.
(Well, it's slightly above zero, because all the networking equipment uses electricity, but you pay for your part of that in your power and Internet bills.)
Let me know the name of the apt mirror you're running. I'll be sure to point the couple hundred machines I admin for their hourly updates.
(But yes because it isn't.)