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It currently costs less to run a node per month than it does to do three transactions on the blockchain in the same period. Why would anyone care to run a node if the transactions aren't affordable.

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If the blocksize was increased to double its current resource requirements, where i live in Australia, it would be impossible to run a node at any price.

And because the people who run nodes know this, they reject your proposals that reduce bitcoin network security.

You don't need to run a node unless you are a miner you should be using an SPV wallet. Chances are you already do.

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