The issue with viewing it as a lawyer is that laws are based on authority and a centralized fiat model. A law is based on the citizens trusting select individuals to determine what is “moral” or justified rule. These people are paid to make the laws (not evil just pointing out its centralization at its core). This is not how consensus works. Bitcoin’s network is based on time and energy - not centralized authority. Its security is based on the good faith of node runners to validate blocks and determine what goes into those blocks. There is no trust needed. So thats great that you are considering running a node! It’s a lot of work these days (takes like 3 days to download the chain - which is part of the issue here). I really don’t care which client is run, it’s great if there are more nodes and I prefer that Core isnt run, but people need to understand that bip110 is really the only implementation that is addressing the chain bloat problem. There is a lot of misunderstanding of what it does… you’ll see this in realtime once you try and upload the timechain lol 😂 it’s growing at a historic rate - like 2.2 GB a week!