When I first got my license, 2 meters was the highest freq. typically used, 440 was an experimenters band and anything above that was AT&T Microwave links for phone and network video. It took a few years but now you can buy 1.2 GHz gear from several sources. The experimenters area becomes common to all in a few years. I

At my radio beginning, there were no PCs, mobile radios were crystal controlled mostly, and you bought a keypad to generate telephone tone pairs to use a repeater auto-patch and wired it in yourself. Things change to meet the demand and it won't take long to have microwave gear and antennas easily available. Just takes a demand that a HEO or better satellite in orbit generates. It's one of the reasons AO-92 has L/v mode.

I welcome the change.

Rusty, WA8ZID