Have you met this cool 
?
You could exchange war stories.
Though I think you’ve got him beat with 14 nodes on the mesh.
I wonder if there’s any special difficulty in designing a system to serve well both very limited and virtually unlimited scenarios - like my minimal, and your maximal, examples.
In any case, I’ll bet engineers get more excited by a full orchestra than a jazz quintet exercising their ‘instruments.’ 
Let us know.