I don't disagree, but just to be Devil's Advocate: 😊

When you say 60/40 in favour of Core, that's just measured among noisy people who are online too much (like me!)

And maybe the 60% were already running nodes, while the 40% weren't, explaining why we get new Knots nodes without any change in the number of Core nodes

(I'm a bit of an exception to the pattern I'm describing here, but this isn't about me 😊)