We should not discourage people from running a BTC node, and we must make that distinction. People should be running their own node. Full stop. The choice to run a lightning node along side it comes later.

I think it's dangerous to throw discouragement and confusion into the mix that could stop people from running a BTC node. BTC requires you to be sovereign in a hostile environment and we haven't seen it at the heights of hostile yet.

So I'll say it again. Run a node!