There are plenty of reasons to do this that don't distill just down to do they act as expected. One reason researchers do quantum experiments in macro-objects i

There are plenty of reasons to do this that don't distill just down to do they act as expected. One reason researchers do quantum experiments in macro-objects is it is significantly easier to measure. If they can show the glass bead can be put into quantum states in space it means they can now study quantum states via a glass bead instead of atoms, which are real hard to look at.