4 & 5) The increased costs is only marginal.
A minimum of 2x increase is "marginal"?
what actual costs..
a 2tb hard drive does not cost more if its storing 52gb or 104gb.. and in 20 years-40 years when its full that hard drive cost is marginal
wait. lets put it into cores 4mb preference
10 years usage
most people change their computers every 5 years anyway
You can't know this. Example: I have to upgrade my node soon due to inadequate amount of storage on it.
oh i forgot you dont have a real node running on a home computer. you have an online AWS node with only probably 100gb storage
try splashing out $300 and run a real node for once and be part of the decentralized network. that $300 will last you over 10 years
($30 a year, $2.50 a month) much cheaper then amazons $15 a month