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That's quite true. While I cannot necessarily understand all the complexities, this issue is fairly likely a variable which can be changed.
As you said, I have no real understanding of what it might affect, but by the looks of the number itself, I can only guess that it was simply an arbitrary number decided because "surely no one will put that many textures in a directory".