Can you confirm that this change does not have impact on this issue?
Sometimes we observe that nodes do not get any ingress for no apparent reason. A restart solves it and uploads re-appear in the logs.
It sounds like the change would not have impact on this as if that issue happens, the logs do not show any uploads just downloads. But as we don’t know the cause of the issue I am not sure.
If due to the change the node would display the intended uploads though, then it would be harder to spot when the issue happends.
I think real ingress is very interesting to know and see if you node is working and how much it receives.