Dedicated Node Pools?

I was configuring my homelab with cluster autoscaler and came across a question that I thought I should ask here. In my k8s cluster I'm currently running 4 nodepools, separated using taints and tolerations: System - for operators only (e.g. cert-manager, cnpg, etc.) Database General Observability (e.g. VictoriaMetrics/Logs) I wanted to find out how those who run Observabili