How can I add/remove large nodes? This operation frequently fails for different reasons

[Guy]

Originally from the User Slack

@Mahdi_KamaliMahdi_Kamali**:** Adding and removing large nodes is very likely to fail. Because the repair-based node ops fail with only a single range failure, and the repair operation makes nodes slower.
It takes too much time to retry these operations.
Is there any solution to overcome this issue (except using stream-based ops).
Is there any way to remove node forcefully without replicating its data?

@avi**:** tablets!

[Guy]

Tablets have been available for a while and are widely used. You can learn more about it in this ScyllaDB University lesson.

[horschi]

Is there a migration path to tablets?