I think that just reflects that the typical usage for a capacitor is smoothing out some very spiky load that runs at a high frequency, say a microcontroller running at 100MHz. The average power needs of the MCU are low, but it's drawing almost all of it in a big burst on every clock tick (10ns).

Power supplies handle that badly, and the pulses turn your supply traces in a big antenna and suddenly you're an unlicensed FM radio station.

So for the capacitor that's put in place to buffer that load, the total capacity is important, but what really matters is that the part can manage that 100MHz charge/discharge cycle.