> being unable to format a partition of less than 500GB
> is a real handicap for MorphOS

Formatting an SFS partition of less than 500 GB should be no problem, as long as it's also less than 128 GiB ;-)

> to be able to download file sizes [...] (4.3GB or 8GB [...]) is extremely limiting.

And here I thought the limiting would be in *not* being able to do this ;-)

> why are we still using a PowerPC hardware and a Power PC Operating System?

Because the port of MorphOS to x64/AMD64 has not been finished/released yet ;-)