I don't understand what you mean by this; you do not need an archival node to either pull transaction receipts or to request transaction logs: you only need an

I don't understand what you mean by this; you do not need an archival node to either pull transaction receipts or to request transaction logs: you only need an archival node if you want access to all of the starting storage states of all past blocks, which you effectively never need (except for debugging). Notably: a "full node" is not an "archive node", and will not need more than the 400GB of space.