the number of nodes has nothing to do with hashrate (or number of miners). and my point was about the number of nodes. whether there are 10 nodes or a million node the transactions can't change without creating an invalid forked chain that will be rejected by everyone.
I was a bit misleading but I am not yet clear I guess in this issue. What's the exact benefit of having a lot of full nodes (not miners)? It's making the chain more decentralized, isn't it? Then how? Sorry if I have missed anything. I guess instead of "can not be altered a transaction" I can write "can not be overwritten"? Still it's same meaning.
being decentralized is a combination of both nodes and miners. we want both hashrate and nodes to be spread among as many people as possible and around the world so that there isn't any centralized point of failure.
having more nodes shows the higher distribution and less node less distribution.
for example in bitcoin even if someone had a very large portion of the hashrate they still couldn't create a fork without convincing all the nodes to accept that fork. if they forked their blocks would be rejected by the majority of the network and they will lose money. even if they controlled a lot of nodes (100 out of 100k) it still wouldn't make a difference.
but if there were so little number of nodes, and if that someone with high hashrate and a good number of nodes decided to create a fork they could easily do that because the network is small (100 out of 150) and the minority have no choice but to follow.
having lots of nodes also prevents so many attack vectors like DDoSing nodes, sybil attacks,...
it is also a matter of privacy too. if you run your bitcoin node, when connecting to others there is a good chance that they are also other individuals. but if you run a BSV node there is a very high chance that you are connecting to nodes controlled by the company owning BSV. now they can easily monitor your transactions, where you send your coins, which addresses belong to you, record your IP address, censor your transactions even,... add sybil attacks and backdoors in the altcoin clients and all of that becomes even easier.