I hear a ton of serious talk about how some of the coins on the alt scene are moon bound yet those same coins barely have any active nodes.
Especially in comparison to the others.
What does node count mean to you?
Low node count means no actual users, people just trading it back and forth on exchanges like a big circle jerk.
High node count may indicate real users, but in a PoS coin it may just indicate people staking as a form of longer-term speculation, so it is hard to tell.
No matter what, hardly any nodes means the coin either very early stage or a failure.