Depends on which country you live. If it's somewhere where using bitcoin is illegal, then running a node in clearnet is plain dumb. Your Internet provider can figure out you do easily as messages aren't encrypted. In that case, you should just run via Tor.

There aren't lots of disadvantages with Tor. Only speed. If you sync for the first time, it might take a few days to finish syncing. Consider adding onlynet=onion to go full Tor.