It seemed that for v3, -node, basically the network and chain logic part, is considered the equivalent of release candidate now (#1194522 and #1197814) and that now it needs interaction in -server, which would make it a package closer to bitcoind.

I want to test the performance of it after IBD, to be able to put the tradeoffs into perspective. For example: libbitcoin does IBD against 100 peers, so I'd want to know what happens if you get 100 peers doing IBD against a single libbitcoin node, what the impact is on machine resources and what the impact of that is on other operations, like unconfirmed tx relay and chaintip blocks.