running a node doesn't give you expertise on how to engineer the system, why should anyone listen to you?

I’m I lesser than?

Yes, as Am I.. But I sane enough to run core

Node runners opinions should be listen bc they are the ones running the SW. Technical expertise is useless if no one will run your code. Bitcoin is a project for and to humanity, and that is the current problem with Core, this same feeling that they know better and that they don't have to listen to anyone and even mock them. Funny bc someone like Luke, Jimmy Song and others do know how to engineer the system and still Core doesn't care.