I suspect people running XMR nodes care more about privacy than the average Bitcoiner. Sad, but probably true.
So many maxis have never even downloaded Bitcoin core.
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You need a node to maximise privacy and for
CPU mining.
I'd say that incentives are better aligned for Monero node operators than for Bitcoin.
Amd Monero is 99% price insensitive cypherpunks. While Bitcoin has 1% cypherpunks.
Considering privacy is the whole point of xmr, I would expect you're right about that.