The correlation is between battery size and power draw. The secondary correlation is between screen size and battery size. Combine them and you have a correlation (though not as direct) between power draw and screen size.
The catch here is that the single most important predictor in general power requirements of all iOS devices is the screen (primarily size, secondarily resolution).
To say it makes "very little sense" is extremely ignorant, as, of all possible things to speculate on, it's the single most logical aspect of an iOS device to consider..
Ignorant is perhaps too strong a word. And perhaps 'very little sense' was too strong a statement. In either case, my point was that increase in the screen size doesn't seemlike the first logical speculation due to an increase in the power adaptor size, instead a larger battery/quicker charging time make more sense. A larger battery, obviously, would be in case of more power hungry components, one subset of which is screen size, the other being retina display.
If you have owned the retina ipad (I had the ipad3 and ipad2 both) you will know that the charger was barely sufficient to charge the retina ipad while being used. This sounds like a fix for more power hungry components.
So, to speculate about an increased screen size before all these other basic reasons 'makes very little sense.'