Currently the mempool isn't persisted across restarts. The historical argument against doing this is that it would make transactions immortal. Expiration now addresses that issue.

Without preserving the mempool node behavior changes drastically across restarts which complicates production use (e.g. mining overly small/low fee blocks) as well as development testing. The lack of retention also causes the loss of txn priority modifications made with prioritisetransaction which makes the API less reliable.

size_t GetTxSize() const;
    size_t GetTxWeight() const { return nTxWeight; }
    int64_t GetTime() const { return nTime; }
    unsigned int GetHeight() const { return entryHeight; }
    bool WasClearAtEntry() const { return hadNoDependencies; }
    int64_t GetSigOpCost() const { return sigOpCost; }
    int64_t GetModifiedFee() const { return nFee + feeDelta; }
    size_t DynamicMemoryUsage() const { return nUsageSize; }
    const LockPoints& GetLockPoints() const { return lockPoints; }
    
    void UpdateDescendantState(int64_t modifySize, CAmount modifyFee, int64_t modifyCount);
    
    void UpdateAncestorState(int64_t modifySize, CAmount modifyFee, int64_t modifyCount, int modifySigOps);
    
    
    void UpdateFeeDelta(int64_t feeDelta);
    
    void UpdateLockPoints(const LockPoints& lp);
    uint64_t GetCountWithDescendants() const { return nCountWithDescendants; }
    uint64_t GetSizeWithDescendants() const { return nSizeWithDescendants; }
    CAmount GetModFeesWithDescendants() const { return nModFeesWithDescendants; }
    bool GetSpendsCoinbase() const { return spendsCoinbase; }
    uint64_t GetCountWithAncestors() const { return nCountWithAncestors; }
    uint64_t GetSizeWithAncestors() const { return nSizeWithAncestors; }
    CAmount GetModFeesWithAncestors() const { return nModFeesWithAncestors; }
    int64_t GetSigOpCostWithAncestors() const { return nSigOpCostWithAncestors; }