You should run a node to broadcast your transactions and verify transactions you recieve. Its also a privacy benefit as you don't need to share your xpub with strangers as you do if you use a mobile wallet connected to a random electrum server.

You never did! I run a node to interact with the network DIRECTLY. Not through some “trusted third party”. I’m continuously shocked how misunderstood this is. Bitcoin has never been and WILL never be a “democracy”. It is a system of auto-poetic incentives. Bound together by the un...