But it wouldn’t be that beneficial to the network. The blockchain must be made as redundant as possible for the new generation of Bitcoiners. If you have the hardware, store the whole blockchain.
Archival nodes are needed for bootstrapping and that is about it, pruned nodes can do everything except to serve those pruned block data. It is only important, in the event that we're hitting a point where we are at the risk of losing those data completely. So, IMO the requirement for that can be quite overblown, especially given that we're not in shortage of those.
I do believe that the importance of archival nodes is overblown to a huge extent, where we have no shortage of those for now and in the near future. If anything, we should be exploring ways to either preserve the history, or employ some scheme to truncate the size.