msi limitation - 1600 components per feature

msi has the follwoing limitation: 1600 components per feature:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368579(VS.85).aspx

But why?

http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/printable.asp?m=20038

http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove/archive/2009/05/31/right-corner-wix-heat-left-corner-thousands-of-files.aspx