Understood just for my set up that Channel made it expensive (relative to sats) to withdraw from strike

Be aware: they have many different nodes now, including Rizful node.

>Fees were terrible

That's quite subjective. Each node runner is adjusting his fees depending on the traffic it gets. Most of them are adjusted for keeping alive the service.
Did you tried to run a public node as a LSP and see how much it cost you to keep alive 100 private channels that barely move sats?

Public routing fees is pure free market environment. Very few node runners can afford to run full 0 fees routing, maybe only for their own private users, but not publicly.

I don't want to defend Megalith node, but I understand their policy because I know how is to run a public node.

DarthCoin

lightning

PSA from Megalith Node: small offline channels can be closed !

I had a channel with this node. Fees were terrible. Then they closed their channel with me. But never had a failed payment. It’s a very well connected node 