You're right, you certainly can. I had a few main cases in mind with this mod. The first is that often when using chests for output, you only want a single stack of a given item (a provider for electric poles, for example). The second and more petty case is that I often play with people who don't remember to limit outputs and we end up with 10,000 of an obsolete item in the logistic network. Additionally, the recipe for each small chest yields two per regular chest, so there's incentive to use it in cases where you don't need the slots.
I didn't know this mod existed. I have been modding the red provider chest to 1 stack, for this reason. It is very helpful when modding the stack sizes to anything higher than 'vanilla'. And I have quite often forgotten to change the stack size for a provider chest and making way too many things. Thanks for this mod.