Because of their blind obsession with slapstick/cartoon style combat, it makes sense they would reduce fall damage as a reaction to players complaining about the ridiculous amount of shoving and falling. When they really should be reducing Shove distance and making it an attack action.
I'm not sure if they did or not, but reducing fall damage doesn't have any impact on getting one-hit-killed in water / pit / lava, which is the actual problem. I have noticed however that even long falls are surprisingly safe so perhaps they did.
+1 to having more realistic fall damage and making Shove 5ft. and an attack action.
