If Knots isn't willing to scale L1, then there is no argument for running it. The choice is to run a BTC node or a Bitcoin Cash node.

That's it.

If you want Bitcoin to scale and be successful, Bitcoin Cash is the right option.

Because not even the most "counter-Core" client on BTC is proposing to do something about its crippled L1, in fact their maintainer would rather sell you more koolaid of a slightly different flavor.