conventionally prunning wasnt even a thing.. all full nodes archived data
you do know that the point of blockchains is decentralised storage of blockchain data.. to avoid centralising the blockdata
i think you are just trying to find excuses to pretend you are helping the network without helping the network but still want to be seen as helping the network, even thought you only care about the features that help yourself
nothing wrong with wanting feature that help yourself, but lets not pretend you are offering full decentralised network services to help the decentralised network
No one is virtue signalling here; I'm not running a pruned node to feel good or brag about it. Heck, I'm not even being compensated for running a full archival node. Getting shamed or attacked for running a pruned node instead of a full node is disgusting and unwarranted. If I can only run a pruned node, then you bet I wouldn't buy another disk just to run a Bitcoin node.
If I'm not getting compensated for running a node, I don't think anyone should lecture me on what I should be doing to my node. After all, it's not like my pruned node is a negative to the network and is still in fact providing blocks to my peers, validating transactions before relaying it, etc.