It really just came down to simplifying my life. I've been running the node for over a year now, and learnt a heap. But was constantly stressed about keeping the node online, balanced, fee structure, etc. Additionally my node kept crashing randomly and could never work out why.

Will keep my node online for mainly personal use. Perhaps one day I'll be back in a more professional sense. So far I've closed about half my channels.

When I come back I'll make sure I tick these requirements: