They can sell flip used drive for 25 bucks without a problem, then it's just 50€. I think if they afford to pay $1000 for an Apollo, they can save up another 50 for a new drive.
Otherwise they could also attach something they already have, USB-based, like a USB HDD and symlink a few things over to that.
It will all be a hacky solution though, and having an 'elegant' setup just has its cost, I guess.
I wish that be true, but
tyranny of the default, or inertia, always wins.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think pruned nodes don't seed at all, anyway. So we don't 'lose' more nodes if they start pruning as opposed to them just shutting down.
That I don't know.
I hope jstefanop can look urgently at this matter and find some solution.