They also took it out of their business model to separate out the price of locals on the bill, but they brought that back.
As I recall in the past, if you wanted locals only, the price was something like $15 or $20. That probably wasn't enough to sustain keeping in business. Think about this, in this age of streaming, many if not most would go to stream plan and get their locals only from Dish. Dish cannot maintain a business on that alone, they need the rest of the package to make a go of it. Remember it cost 100s of millions of dollars for each satellite alone.
What I do see happening, IMHO, is that in the near future Dish will allow for you to drop locals from your subscription and you will save that $10 a month. Also, you will probably see certain DMAs have a higher than $10 a month cost for locals. This would be based on what it costs Dish to actually provide those locals. The DMAs like NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. which have a ton of locals available are going to cost more than the smaller DMAs. Let's see how that pans out....