When your node does IBD, by the time it hits ordinals, 67% of the chain has been downloaded. Let that sink in.
The remaining 33% of the chain is the last 2 and a quarter years of bitcoin's entire 16 year history.
Miners got paid.
Node runners got nothing and gave their resources to cloud storage for scammers.
Your first mistake was node running in the cloud
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The chain is cloud storage now.