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Why? Is this something that's a side effect of some irrefutable physics law or a limitation of the current technology?



Both. You can't have a measurable feature smaller than the Planck length, but that's not relevant to QR decoding in any practical sense.

As for the practical limits, try using your phone to take a picture of something very far away, or very tiny, and see what happens.




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