I'm playing the music Seriously though, I mostly run a node to verify my experiments, and I disable my mempool in part to save on bandwidth. So Core works fine for me in that context. I recommend looking into Knots for any pleb who wants to help the network by relaying non-spammy transactions. You also give a relative speed boost to spam-free blocks, so I think Knots is a great option if you want to do that.

Thanks for the reply. What about just running v29 with my own limits? Isn't that practically the same thing?

Depending on what limits you use, probably