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Two things:
Sadly, my USB port completely borked, so that's off the table. I use KDE-something-or-other to txfr files over my internetless wifi.
Second, I did look into it, and even on my Graphene OS phone, the USB tether is treated identically to the hot spot; that is to say, the carrier can detect you're connecting a device and there is no workaround other than paying the cellular provider for the privilege of using your connection as they see fit.
there must be a workaround. I have been seeing solutions for this in the past, but I don't remember because I haven't had such a shitty provider.
probably it's the TTL value in the packets. if you can move the sim card or a clone of it into a portable openwrt router, that's an easy fix, otherwise it would probably need patching android which you probably can't do because graphene is too hostile to that.