Probably you could, but life is all about choices ;-)
And mainly I'm running these ports as an exit because I hope to get marked as an exit node (without having much extra risk) and therefor have a chance of collecting more bitcoins because I'm listed at oniontip
Running the node (with a very shitty connection) as a relay for a few months didn't get me *any* satoshis (altough there were donations to others).
I hope to increase my chances by getting the exit flag and increasing my bandwidth a bit.
Like I said, it running on a spare google TV stick and is consuming a few watts (likely less than 5 watt)
I would love to have some satoshis collected this way, only for the fun of it.