$10 per node per month is excessive and is a cashgrab by the supplier. you can get a full node
for $19 a month.
you mean a year
but you have to make it easier
Morblias is actually helping out people for free to make things easy. But, I doubt, how far a node provides extra support for the network ? Nodes will ultimately relay a Tx, but miners are responsible to include it in a block. We already have enough nodes. Mining should be more distributed. We are having polarization in the mining front.
p.s. Probably some better version of Abe will help in growing more API services too, which is required.