Exactly this. A node sitting on your shelf keeping a copy of the full-history of all on-chain transactions doesn't do anyone any good just sitting there.

Is your wallet connected to it, or do you use some default 3rd party's node?

Do you use it for your own lightning wallet, or do you just use a custodian because it's easy?

Is your bitaxe connected to it for creating your own block templates, or are you just pointing it at a "solo" pool that creates them for you?

When you want to check the status of a pending transaction, do you pull up your own node's mempool explorer, or do you just go to mempool.space?

Run a node for YOU. It doesn't really provide benefit to anyone else, and doesn't provide you any benefit unless you actively use it.

Here to help anyone who wants to learn how.