I've been doing research on Cardano, already watched dozens of hours of Charles Hoskinson and still need to watch more, and I've been in crypto since the peak of 2018 (I ended up waiting for the bottom to buy though), and as a software engineer/computer scientist student I always like to try the tech, run the nodes and soon will start to try to deploy Smart Contracts. I know that in Ethereum one of the biggest hurdles is the fact that the blockchain size is always increasing and only people with big SSDs are able to run an archive node, and soon even the full nodes non archive will start to be out of reach for normal people...
From what I've seen, Cardano always tries to go for the most