Knots is for control freaks. Most bitcoiners are control freaks. The fact that they're not running knots tells me they've been duped by influencer bullshit. If you just run knots with the default, you're just running the opinion of the knots devs instead of the opinion of the core devs, but knots gives you all the switches and knobs to customize your node policy and project your own opinion on the network. Control, not being a passive little bitch.