Neither the thread itself nor Veritas's post history show that quote bolded by brg44.  Veritas did not say that.

I'm a very well off European with very cheap internet access and I personally don't think it is inconvenient nor expensive to run my node. Third-world problems are not my problems.

BIP101 does allow the majority of people in the developed world to continue running full nodes, some people will not be able to, I have never denied that.