I keep hearing that knots numbers are inflated based on a recent surge, but I know Start9 ( a self-sovereign server) just released an update to both Core and Knots and a lot of people made the switch at that point. I just went to knots a week ago myself. I'll keep saying it - I'm not 100% certain the changes to core are dangerous, but they sound like it so I'll run knots until someone can explain why I shouldn't.