#meshtastic community planners, I need your advice.

Suppose a msg originates from the CLIENT_MUTE in the east.
A) If the node on the hill (northwest) were a CLIENT, the msg would run out of hops and wouldn't reach the southern-most CLIENT_MUTE.
B) If it were a ROUTER, it would cancel retransmissions along the path.

In A, I could increase the hop limit to 7, but that would just delay the problem, happening again once the mesh grows and the problem repeats.

What would you do in this situation?