But isn't promoting more than 8 hosts against the gnutella community agreements/philosophy or whatever you wish to call it. After all, if all programs could connect to 10 hosts or more, then
1. that would mean many less upload slots available for people to connect to, thus resulting in long queues of waiting on busy host. (Isn't that WinMX's problem with major queuing) & how many people have more upload slots than downld slots. The maths doesn't seem to equal!,
2. FrostWire & other gnutella variations are here as a result of LW's development. I believe the little extra that Pro offers is a thank you for helping to support the continuing development of Limewire & its offerings to the LW community.

The same could be said about ultrapeers. If programs increased that no., then there'd be less available for people to connect with. And the benefits would not be as bad as the side-FX.

My post is more of a query.