@takemehomegrandma
If you find my behaviour strange, then you still haven't grasped why I am doing what I'm doing. Please at least TRY to answer the question below
By all means. Your view is that *even the thought* of MorphOS could be having a larger user base than OS4 is "more of wishful thinking than anything based in reality", it being "Extraordinary claims", obviously totally inconceivable to you. While not claiming with certainty that *it is* this way, I have during my posts put up
at least 6 facts that combined gives a plausible case how it *could be* this way. Since you are so desperate to show how this is nothing but "wishful thinking", you have been using all kinds of strange arguments, really grasping for straws, like pointing at Aminet Upload Statistics(!!) and your perceived activity in selected forums(!!!), I mean
come on! Since I posted the last graph the other day, it has now been updated. Well, well, well, the trend (that *is* based on reality, like it or not) continues!

This definitely covers *some* old "classic" Amigans, curious about the "NG" thing, it covers some still active OS4 users wanting to have and use MorphOS as a complement to OS4, and possibly some *formerly* active OS4 users that simply can't afford/won't think it's worth the money to replace their dead-by-age AmigaOne XE system with what's currently being offered by A-eon and Acube.
What these people (in the blinking part above) did do during the very last month, is they have obtained a MorphOS compatible Mac computer by paying money in the range of $20-$300 (probably a hundred or two), they have downloaded MorphOS for free, they have used it and evaluated it for a couple of days, they have installed SW, they have been configuring it in various ways, they have browsed the web, they have played with it, they have been doing a lot of things trying to answer the question: "is this a good Amiga for my needs? A license will cost some money, will it be worth it?". And then *they have* taken the step and paid the €111 to get a key file, some have reported their serial numbers in that MorphOS Counter thread over at MZ, thus they ended up in this statistic. A similar amount is undergoing the same process as we speak. And yet a new group will show up in the statistics for the month after. And you know what? All these people will probably *continue* their social club activities, they will continue casting their votes in the AW.net pancake polls, start IRC-style chat threads, etc, even together with people not even having come close to anything Amiga in a decade but posting there anyway, thus keeping that site "active"...
Again;
The threshold of going MorphOS is *extremely low*.
The threshold of going OS4 is *extremely high*
This *had*, it *has*, and it *will have*,
a direct impact on amount of users, for both platforms, as statistics shows...
I don't know why this would be so darn inconceivable, so much of "extraordinary claims", and so much of "wishful thinking" from "the other side".
I find this interesting that you bring this up as a quantifiable fact. As far as I know, there has been no in-depth study of 68k Amiga software compatibility
Well *I did bet* right on your reaction here, didn't I?

No, I don't think anyone have bothered with *a complete* Amiga Compatibility comparison, and there are other areas as well where you could do such a comparison as well, like in features and stability. It's very much possible to put together these kind of comparisons, and MorphOS would win them all. I have been playing with the thought many times of producing these comparisons myself, but have been a bit reluctant to do so, because: 1) It would require a lot of time and effort, and 2) As soon as anyone dares to put up a public comparison of MorphOS and OS4 in any way, it's bound to cause uproar and riots, this is something you simply aren't allowed to do, it's taboo, and it will cause the same type of people come crawling up from under their rocks, spewing out their mantras about "negativity", "trolls", "what's the point in all this", shooting and ridiculing the messenger, trying to belittling the whole subject by making casual jokes about it, etc, we have actually seen some lesser examples of this in this very thread (like eliyahu, gertsy, Pyromania, smerf, etc).
There *are* a couple of factual comparisons in existence though. A very thorough performance comparison was made a few years ago (in that french web mag I currently can't remember the name on). MorphOS won, hands down, and as a result we saw countless of thread and unpleasant posts from people condemning the effort per se. Comparing HW performance, HW availability, HW price and HW bang/buck ratio is also a no brainer, there is no need to put these facts side by side in a table, everyone simply knows these facts anyway. A brief feature list comparison (based on publicly available information) could easily be put together (but is it really needed? Doesn't everyone already knows this?), it would take more time to create a comparison table with more in-depth listings. But as soon as you do, there comes these "why all this negativity" people creeping again...