Because being able to run a bitcoin node is more important than buying a cup of coffee with an on chain transaction.

Without decentralization of nodes, and many of them, bitcoin will die.

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(Being devils advocate) storage is cheap. Instead of paying more for storage you get Lightning (with all its shortcomings) Taproot and Ordinals. I wonder if that’s worth not spending $100 more for a larger drive for a node

I think we will be okay πŸ˜‰