No one would even bother to look at the hosts total if there were not a problem with search hits. This is a fact unchanged by your admiration for Morpheus as a Gnutella client.

However, I have noticed that Morpheus ultrapeers need to "cook" a lot longer than Limewire. If I leave Limewire on all night, then in the morning there are usually nothing but Morpheus ultrapeers left. If I do a search, I get the usual number of hits.

But who wants to wait eight hours or so to get decent search results?