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>>15409197
I mostly did it for experimentation, but I suppose it has mainly to do with textwidth. If you are using a small font, you can only cram in so much characters in a line. Beyond a certain limit, it just become hard to read. The max characters per line is ideally considered to be no greater 80 characters. So if the page you are using is large (like A4), you will have extremely wide margins, which will be left unused. So it is better to be used some way or the other. Hence, it makes sense to move the footnotes there.

Personally, I use the margins a different way. I overflow large headings outside the margin. This is because they use a larger font, so the size of the paper relative to them is smaller, so it makes sense to have narrower margins for them. Secondly, I also indent theorem environments outside the margin, this makes them easier to track when glancing through the page. Picrel. I also overflow tables and figures outside the margin, since the whole character per line is not really relevant then.