Modern routers are unable to do line-rate regardless of packet size. See for example the Q100 ASIC from Cisco. Rated for 10.8 Tbps, it is only able to achieve 6 Bpps [1]. So it needs 200-byte packets to hit line-rate. However, as for Netflix, this is not problem since they only push big packets.
[1]: https://xrdocs.io/8000/tutorials/8201-architecture-performan...