Perhaps the don’t say they care about producing content but surely they care about accepting (voip) phone calls, being able to torrent twice as fast (because they would be able to connect to twice as much peers) and they’d also like all these services that just don’t exist anymore because too many people are behind NATs they can’t control.

The popularity of uPnP for automatic port forwarding should be a clue, anything that uses that is blocked by cgnat.