The very few people matter.

While I agree that paying for watching ads is dumb, I can see advantages on the flip side as there is bright plebs all around at a conference and after-parties, fun, behind the scenes talks etc.

OP also wrote: "(...) met sooooo many cool people with whom I have so much in common." and "(...) the money I give her but she doesn't even get self custody". What would you advise about those?

BTW I met you at a conference.

When will you start offering an option of Bitcoin Knots instead of Core node?

I would suggest reporting the issue at the "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues".

Those shitcoiners will not be around in a few years while Bitcoiners will march on.

BITCOIN™ COREporation:

There is also the mako: https://github.com/chjj/mako

Nodes in the peer-to-peer Bitcoin network are like moles in Whac-A-Mole game as long as cost of setting up and running a node is minimal. For example, the 100 000 nodes could easily be recreated in another non-AWS cloud environment (including USB dead drops and sneaker net).

There are ATMs and brick and mortar shops that exchange BTC/fiat in Europe.

I am anti-spam in Bitcoin and use Bitcoin Knots. There are many more of node runners like me. CEOs, MBAs and other suits centrally spamming our network will not overrule our sovereignity. I laugh at the walls of texts they publish to manipulate public opinion.

Redundant LevelDB is the culprit. There is the bug report: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/31882

In short, the current implementation is not scalable. There is huge improvement possible.