Why? 

 It’s on a raspi with no backup so was only a matter of time before it bricked and I lose everything. I’ll run a node again later this year but probably won’t do anything with lightning on it 

 I was primarily referring to a bitcoin node.  Not lightning. 

 Public nodes are not acting maliciously, and if they ever do it’s trivial to set one up.

The real concern is block template producers, not node runners 

 Same unfortunately 

 Yeah same here the rebalancing was atrocious and I was bleeding sats weekly. No small amounts either.