That's silly. That's like saying there is a psychological factor of having "just a few thousand dollars". Anyone who feels that way, isn't capable of logic and reason. As such, they wouldn't contribute much to the economy anyhow. Eventually, when all they can have is "just a few micro-bitcoin, they may finally see reality and come around.
The problem with techies is that they never listen to average joe concerns and marketing people. These units are unusable counting number of zeros each time you want to pay and missing one. It is easier to deal with whole numbers and two decimal places because everybody is used to that.