As the mainnet staking would start soon in Q1 2022, HOPR would need maximum people running a node to build a stable ecosystem.
-To get more people into running a node, HOPR needs to incentivize their AVADO HOPR PC, so people buy it and stake their HOPR to build a stable ecosystem.
-People having Local/AWS resources could still run a node, but these are very less in number.
P.S. Though currently there is an incentive of 50 Hopr tokens on AVADO, they need to incentivize more through locked HOPR tokens (for a year after they were claimed) which in turn would be used for Staking.
Two advantages, tokens locked plus staked :)