We don't have data that scales to thousands of validators yet, but there's really no reason you would need so many. Adding more validators doesn't significantly affect the transaction rate. But it does
Why are you guys constantly posting all this xrp-crap here? The only thing which matters is price. But price of xrp didn't reach even $1 after 4 years of "success" and joyful shouts of ripple fanboys on twitter. XRP proved itself to be useless as investment.