with that being said our node is now 100-200ms faster. we backtested a whole week and I personally think we're one of the fastest if not the fastest high tps node on the solana chain rn
everyone uses it because it is open source and free, however JITO's code and infrastructure are very inefficient.
there's a possibility to custom code it and capture data directly from validators (exactly what me and the team did past 3-4 weeks)
we finally found a way to get rid of jito shredstream by coding our own infra.
quick explanation: every high tps node provider uses shredstream, means they're receiving stream information from JITO.