I have a vague memory that there was a reason for not doing this - something about using more memory or hitting a ceiling of some sort. The major problem of course was not having anyone to tell you that this was a bad idea.
I still remember trying to work out how to program in machine code by poking different values into memory. I had my own guide on what values to avoid and what values worked without having the slightest idea what I was doing.
Absolutely. BASIC on a Sharp 6000 pocket pc[1] for example was limited to (32k or) 64k lines of 256 characters each. Like in many other basic versions, there was no automatic renumbering. Discovered it the hard way.
