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You must be a much better bitcoiner than me. I don't really look at the different transactions my node downloads and verifies -- unless they are sending me sats.
What I care about as a node runner is how long it takes me to do IBD, how often I have to buy a new hard drive, and if something causes my node to crash.
Whether I am pleased by the kind of transactions that get verified by my node is unimportant.
We know this because people are pleased by different things. For instance, there seem to be lots of people who are displeased by Iran or Israel. Such people might not feel pleasure if Iran or Israel was sending lots of transactions and their node was humming away verifying them.
Making technical decisions based on feelings is not a good way to go.
I quite enjoy watching the transactions from time to time.
Indeed, ideally in my view, much more control should be open to the node runner in terms of configuration and what they deem acceptable. Your settings might vary from mine significantly...based on your feelings.
sure. but what shows up in the utxoset is not up to feelings.
if what makes it into a block is based on people's feelings, what stops a government with strong feelings from deciding what makes it into blocks?
yes. that's why bitcoin is designed in such a way that nodes don't have strong tools for preventing valid transactions from making it into blocks.
nodes have very strong influence over what is a valid transaction, but relatively weak influence over which valid transactions are included in blocks.
this is why which valid transactions make it into blocks is not based on any noderunner's feelings.
this is also why talking about spam transactions is nonsensical.
"utreexo is a way to make it easier for many people to run nodes"
Not complete and therefore not interesting personally. If people wish to use it then that's their prerogative.
"...blocks are full of wonderful beautiful monetary transactions, running a full node will be just as difficult as it is if the blocks are full of spam."
I'm not sure why that would be an issue. It's far more pleasing to run a node when it's being used to support a vibrant network and not one where the blocks are full of satoshi dice, veriblock, nfts/ordinals/inscriptions and op_net clownery. ETH and SOL exist for these sorts of exercises to my eye.