Recently setup a full node and it wasn't as challenging as I expected. I am wondering what is stopping more people from spinning up their own full nodes?

For me it seems not as many people care about the network, as they do about the price. I am wondering what you guys think, is this due to people not being aware of how important nodes are? Or due to the "technical" challenges they may face?

Why Run a Node?
The most important quality of Bitcoin is its decentralized nature; there’s no single entity capable of controlling or manipulating it. Because of this, there must be some way to maintain its integrity without trusting any single entity to do so. This is precisely what Bitcoin full nodes are tasked with. However, unlike mining, there aren’t direct financial incentives for running a Bitcoin full node—so why should you run one?

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Once a node validates a transaction or block, it relays that data to other full nodes so that they can come to a consensus. This responsibility of validating the whole blockchain and enforcing the rules of Bitcoin is what makes a node “full.”

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Monetary Incentive
Casa is the only company that provides an additional monetary incentive for running a healthy node. When Casa Node users connect their node to Sats App, they’re able to earn bitcoin! Users of Sats App with Node Heartbeats can get 10,000 SatsBack per week for getting 5 heartbeats sent. This serves as a direct incentive to maintain a high node uptime and strengthen the network.

https://blog.keys.casa/why-run-a-node/

I always wondered why miners don't take the block reward and the fee's should go to the node I think that would be a very good way to incentive's people spinning up nodes if they we're to be the node that is first to broadcast the block they would get a reward for it.

Probably some downside to this idea but it would be something to ensure node's which are key parts of the network would be a reward to run.

This last part is very interesting, Casa gives a small incentive for users to run a node. I don't know if that still exists, but it is worth checking.

My notebook only has SSD (no HD) and it has only 200Gb of disk space. I simply can't run a full node with my equipment. My disk storage is expensive and scarce .

This last part is very interesting, Casa gives a small incentive for users to run a node. I don't know if that still exists, but it is worth checking.

Certainly running a full node is one of the best ways to support the network.

 People don't want to do anything for free. Rewards are needed. There are very few people who are passionate about crypto and who want to help crypto voluntarily, offering to run a complete node.