You made the argument about popularity of software, based on node counts. I pointed out that node counts were affected by terrorism. Any intelligent person would see that node counts are not a reliable reflection of community support because of this situation. Any intelligent person without an ulterior motive would not have replied the way you did.
Hahaha terrorism.
Leaving the hilarity aside, node count was never reliable to begin with as anyone with a bit of time to set up a pseudonode can verify. Nodes are Sybil-vulnerable, like reddit votes.
This is why Bitcoin works, and it does on PoW. As far as PoW goes, 0 out of 1000. Zero. Nothing. Nada.