I'm afraid, the developers probably won't take that back. It's hurting the network and I don't think it improved your search results as much as you think, either. Having too many connection could even reduce your search horizon (I'd have to go deeper into technical stuff to explain that). You can always use another client if you don't like it, although gnucleus for example enforces a limit of 3 and the developer announced that he would like to reduce that number.