Starting a new Orville node

Some things are the same as back in '21 when my first lightning node was spun up. Most of the old peers are still in business: Whales like LNBIG and Wallet of Satoshi are still routing sats like the champs they are and plebswapping is still going on at the LN+ site. Some things have changed. Fees are overall higher. Rebalancing is even harder now than then. 

I realize how different old Orville routed as an established node with many channels, compared to new Orville with less channels. I am fighting the temptation to open just a couple more channels to better enjoy the network effect - but then I remember the bad old times with high mempool fees and force closes. Wanting more successful HTLCs to populate my channels is a greed I have to resist. 10 to 15 channels. No more than that.