No, I can't believe that, altough the answer to your question is a mystery to me (I'm less than 155 cm...)
In fact, at the beginning, CLL was simply medically "forbidden" to any healthy person. Then, CLL was accepted very hardly only to people less than 5% shorter than the average population. More often surgery was done even less, only to people shorter than 2,2/2,4%, average (which is around less than two standard deviations of average). Doing otherwise was not allowed by Medical Councils and sometimes even by law, if that low stature was not associated with a pathology.
Even Ilizarov only lately in his career started to accept CLL but only "desperate" cases of purely very short stature and he had some problems with that (he almost only treated handicaped soldiers and other crippled patients).
Then, he came to teach surgeons in the West with the aim of also treating diseases and orthopaedic problems. But then things start changing much further, the procedure start being known because it was like a medical miracle (some almost 100% amputated limbs were recovered), and by huge pressure of people with height neurosis mainly, also due to some doctors"s greed, less ethical or absence of regulations, the industry of CLL started to flourish.
Now, I won't tell anymore because we enter in the subjective field of evaluation and treatment of height neurosis, body dysphoria, constitutional short stature, idiophatic short stature, standard deviations, averages, Hypocrates principles ("do no harm"), etc.
But the question you asked is a true paradox and mistery for me.
Is it that very short or just short people learn to adapt themselves soon and paradoxically are less neurotic or height becomes less important? Or contrarily are they so neurotic that they don't search or know about LL? Or are they more discrete, inhibited to comunicate? Is it because, since they are smaller, they have less margin to grow? No, definitely not this one, because short people have also relatively shorter legs, specially tibias, even if they were to lenghten less cm....
Because after all, they (like me) should be the bigger source of experience and information, as patients, of CLL. The most probable users here in this forum...