I’m one of the 5-15 and this stresses me out. 

People might not care now, but nobody knows how valuable a fully archived Farcaster will be.  Undoubtedly very valuable and possibly most to people who aren’t thinking of it. 

I’m pretty much in this space for watching history unfold.

If having global state on a single server is important, you get to choose two:

1. Long term storage
2. Censorship resistant
3. Cheap

I've been a strong advocate of long term storage and we had a number of debates on this, but I've flipped. The benefits of 2+3 are huge, and we can try addressing longterm storage outside the protocol.