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I cannot speak of motivations for the float default options in standard documents, but the most logic for a float algorithm cannot other than place the float in a good place as soon as possible.
The default of a standard article is[tbp] (i.e., place the float anywhere except here). Restrict some of these options mean lost many chances of place a float, ...
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In case someone is still looking, I have made a Python 3 script to deal with this problem. I use it to generate a new clean LaTex folder with all the used files directly at the root of the folder, instead of spread in multiple subdirectories. This is a requirement for preprint servers like arXiv and HAL.
(If you only want to delete unused files, then simply ...
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