https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/public-peers/blob/master public peers were probably chosen because they are always online, and probably high performance vps which you can set in your config file.
but maybe this https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2018/07/28/addressing.html is a better answer to your question

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