"Reflections from the shiny debris could fill the sky with bright streaks."
This is becoming more and more apparent to me as I stargaze. Saturday evening I spent more than 5 hours outdoors viewing the heavens with my 10-inch Newtonian telescopes. While viewing Arcturus and some other locations, I counted 5 faint satellites I could see moving above, some 4th-5th apparent magnitude, another polar orbiting perhaps 2nd magnitude. Even when I use the finder scope or 2-inch eyepiece with nearly 2-degree true field of view, I see periodic satellites moving by. Especially noticeable since Starlink launches.