When early prices are low, it is wise to limit small transfers. Too many small transfers can result in bloated purse blocks. Take a look at DOGE, the DOGE wallet block has exceeded 20G.
...but on the other hand, combining small outputs will help reduce the number of unspent outputs that every client has to keep track of. Imagine how many 0.01 IFC unspent outputs there are sitting idle as a database entry in the blockchain? The issue here is that it is relatively expensive to combine outputs with IFC. People cloning coins in 2013 probably didn't consider these sorts of problems.