I have a certain number of hours in a day allocated to studying crypto and blockchain technology. Last two weeks, I read a whitepaper through a link a friend in my steemit community shared and it tried to describe that term "full node" . I was utterly confused as the explanation I got was completely different from what I read in a blog decicated to bitcoin discussions. Since then, the term has consitently been a pont of confusion to me and nearly discouraged me. I am glad that you pointed this difference out in this post.

Here, on Steem, the word “full” doesn’t refer to anything related to the blockchain - it refers to the fully featured set of APIs enabled within steemd.

A new lesson learnt ion March 5th!
Confusion terminated!