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It says they tested it for half a year in India and:

"The forward limit significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world," a spokeswoman added.

If you choose to remain in a 200+ group, it's your prerrogative to endure the dumpster fire.

Because Whatsapp group size is 256 people and you can foward a message to 5 groups.

That's quite a blast radius. Also, we have seen automated accounts that automatically spread messages to those groups.