From what I gather Satoshi's dream didn't foresee the split between miner and node. Mining was the incentive to run the node and now running a node actually takes quite a lot of resources and soooo much time to catch up to the blockchain and no real incentive other than maybe trying to anonymize transactions through TOR yourself without trusting a web wallet service. I like that Dash incentives nodes I wish I could afford one of those fancy Baikals to mine Dash with.