It would be nice to be able to return a token to its original combined state. So then you could destroy all the validation chains (except maybe one) since it is whole again.
Without any recombination then over time the tokens will tend towards the lowest most often occurring common denominator. Maybe in the first year or two it would be 0.01 token and after 2 more years it could be 0.000001 of a token and after ten years its nanos and 15 years like 10^-12 as micro tipping becomes common place.
Can you imagine a person/company that receives millions of micro transactions a month then trying to use their many ANTs worth of micro transactions? It’d take the receiver week/months to validate maybe 100 million micro amounts of token. Some 10 micro ANT token and some 1 micro ANT token transaction etc.
This won’t happen quickly but without recombination of some sort we will see those with larger denominations breaking them up to give milli to micro amounts to tip people who are then the collectors of these tiny denominations. Eventually they will pay some one else with them. But still a small number with lots of the tiny amounts while others continue to break up their amounts to hand out the micro transactions.