I'm playing the music

Seriously though, I mostly run a node to verify my experiments, and I disable my mempool in part to save on bandwidth. So Core works fine for me in that context.

I recommend looking into Knots for any pleb who wants to help the network by relaying non-spammy transactions. You also give a relative speed boost to spam-free blocks, so I think Knots is a great option if you want to do that.