My wife and I considered cutting the cord earlier this year and in the end, it wasn't a significant enough savings for what was being sacrificed. Like you, we are light users of TV but one constant is local sports. Hockey and baseball are on channels not offered by YouTube TV and other services but are included in cable. Cable clearly has the advantage here and knows what they are doing. Even after realizing this, we will considered cutting the cord. One thing we immediately noticed is that you can't pay down for internet. That is, if you and multiple people in the household could be using the internet and streaming at once, you clearly have to pay up for a better internet. I.e. added costs. That plus all the cable cutter services like Netflix in the end yielded us only about a $10-20 savings per month. Giving up local sports, managing a bunch of subscriptions, and sacrificing other channels just wasn't worth that incremental savings.

Cable magically packages decent internet with a big channel list (including local sports) for just $10-20 more than if you cut the cord. To say they know what they are doing is an understatement.