I got up to about 800, pared down to 300, then as I got more of Andy's and the Exchange, back up to 800.
So I started using my Favourite's folder, instead of the "snapshot" area. I started at 120, then up to 170, now down to the 150's.
I don't like the 1000 in theory, but as a theoretical limit, it's like my mother putting pressure on me to clean my room.
From time to time it forces me to reckon with what I have and delete those I'm not using, or likely to use anytime soon. I can always reload them.
My only real complaint with the 1000 limit is this: NOT being able to easily rename patches makes it difficult to keep fewer but well ordered rigs.
There is a program that can rename patches. I'm thinking that maybe I should take all mine off, rename and upload in batches. But it will take hours to do that. Not many hours, but I'm lazy! BTW, that program would be mega-awesome IF I could do drag-n-drop of rig files to it!