I updated right away. I think I've finally arrived in the "nobody understands consensus" part of my technical bitcoin journey.

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Sounds familiar. Trust the experts, right?

I don't trust. I verify

How would one verify the best choice between knots and core?

The same way someone verifies the best choice between bitcoin and the dollar.

By realizing you understand a complex truth that most people don't think about.

Compare the tradeoffs of each implementation.

How do we truly understand the trade offs if we are quite ignorant to how something, that is very complicated, works?

We’re not fully ignorant of it. It’s basically all game theory.