Running a bitcoin node is intensive.
So why do you want to remove the ability for people to run a pruned node if they cannot manage to run a full node?
Now would you be willing to perform that action for every single cryptocurrency that you use? Of course not.
That's exactly what I do. Bitcoin and Monero.
One for solana, one for ethereum, the list goes on and on.
Or maybe just don't buy centralized scam coins. Running a Solana node is pointless since the whole thing is completely centralized anyway.
Anyone can do what they want to but it would seem to me that pruning takes away your ability to look up and even construct transactions of your own.
It doesn't. You simply set up your wallet in advance, and Core will keep all the transactions relevant to your addresses after it starts to prune old blocks. A pruned node can still validate new blocks and transactions, keep your wallet up to date, and let you create transactions.
So it's not even really a useful thing for someone like me.
So then run a full node. Again, you don't get to dictate to other people what kind of node they are or are not allowed to run.
Exactly. Useless to people because you can't look up transactions. You can't really do anything. Except verify transactions or something. Helping the network as they say.
"Except verify transactions or something", as if being able to verify things for yourself isn't a core tenet of Bitcoin. And as above, a pruned node will quite easily let you look up transaction relevant to your wallet(s) - it just doesn't store everyone else's transactions too.