Yeast Starter Vortex Size

I've read online that the size of the vortex in a yeast starter does not matter. Why is this true?

When I was experimenting with water yesterday, I created a monster vortex (very cool) and could see air bubbles screaming all over the water; turning the vortex down into a baby vortex resulted in no air bubbles screaming all over. Some people say that the point of the vortex is just to keep the yeast in suspension which will make contact with the air in the vortex. Others say you need a monster vortex so that the air bubbles can scream through the solvent and aerate the wort. Which is correct?

If you simply stir your 5 gallons of wort, it will not aerate much at all. The reason you splash it is to introduce oxygen bubbles into the wort, which aerates it better. Given that everyone agrees on this, why would a small vortex with no screaming air bubbles be able to aerate the yeast starter?

EDIT: Well I figured if the point of the vortex was to aerate the yeast-starter, why not use my aeration-stone and oxygen tank? So I hung the stone in for 60 seconds which created a lot of foam, but the stir plate got rid of the foam.

It made me think: now that my yeast starter is aerated, why should I care about the size of the vortex (given the assumption that the greater the vortex, the greater the aeration)?

Why care about the vortex at all (given the assumption that vortex size has nothing to do with aeration) ?