The limitation on number of peers is just a temporary fix until Chrome 51 is released. There's a bad leak on OS X that causes 100% CPU usage. Once that's out, we can bump that number by a factor of 2 or 4, and then the chance that your local peer will be found will be higher.
https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-tracker/blob/master/lib/client/websocket-tracker.js#L64