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Because reflowed PDFs are not as well-formatted as the average ePub. They lose their paragraph indents entirely, and the tagging has problems with short paragraphs (dialogue and poetry, mostly). Reflow also keeps the original page breaks, which leads to orphan lines.
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Tanks you
Ok, just a stupid remark : there is noting preventing to have BOTH ePub and pdf.
Then everyone can get whatever version he or she is happy with.
I think the idea would be -> first ePub, we edit and proofread that ePub.
And than we use some software to convert to pdf's
Detecting the place where hyphenation is needed or orphan is the part easy. Then, you prompt the user to do the hard part : how should i deal with that one ?
Hard work still, but more doable than proofreading the same book X times.
But then, the real problem with e-books right now is that the publishers need to step it up, and actually spend some time editing ! Adobe need to step it up and support css way better.