I believe the original rationale was that the witnesses wanted to prevent "unnecessary bloat" of the blockchain by having millions of insignificantly small transactions. But that's sort of moot, really, because there are already millions of tiny votes that DO count, when they are added to a post/comment that's already above $0.02. And those still represent a transaction. Just consider when a curation trail hits one of your posts and you suddenly have 100 upvotes... the vast majority of those are close to zero.
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Very true. With little understanding of how the back end works, I find it hard to comment on the decision making process. Whatever the rationale for the decision was, and whether converting the tiny votes to rewards bloats the Blockchain or not, I don’t think the decision had much of an effect in the functioning of things around here or mass adoption either. Not that I can tell, anyway.