I wonder if part of the problem is that widespread use of “up to” seems to have been redefined to mean “approximately”?
For example BBC news, when reporting on a storm, will often say something like “up to 3,000 homes are believed to be without electricity”. I’m sure they don’t really mean “up to 3,000” as that would include “no homes at all”. They probably mean “about”, so why say “up to”?
Whatever the reason, people seem to have come to misunderstand these words “up to”. And that is a shame as they are perfectly good, nice short, and very meaningful words, if taken literally. I still think the answer lies in education, as to what the words “up to” actually mean.
If we are going to ban innapropriate use of “up to” then I’d prefer to ban the likes of BBC reporting, that I hear every day, rather than ban the genuinely useful data conveyed by ISP package descriptions.