Why do BLDC motor (1 kW) controllers have so many MOSFETs?
The reason to use multiple MOSFETs is to lower power dissipation resulting in a cheaper design.

Yes one MOSFET can handle the current but it will dissipate some power as it does have some resistance, typically 9 mohm for the IRFB3607.

At 25 A that means 25 A * 9 m ohm = 225 mV drop

At 25 A that means 25 A * 225 mV = 5.625 W of power dissipation

A heatsink for that would need to be substantial.

Now let's do the same calculation for 4 IRFB3607 in parallel:

Now 9 mohm is divided by 4 because of 4 parallel devices:

9 m ohm / 4 = 2.25 mohm

At 25 A that means 25 A * 2.25 m ohm = 56.25 mV drop

At 25 A that means 25 A * 56.25 mV = 1.41 W of power dissipation

That 1.41 W is for all MOSFETs together so less than 0.4 W per MOSFET which they can handle easily without any extra cooling.

Above calculation does not take into account that the 9 mohm Rdson will increase when the MOSFETs heat up. That makes the single MOSFET solution even more problematic as an even larger heatsink is required. The 4 MOSFET solution might "just manage" as it still has some margin (the 0.4 W could increase to 1 W and that would still be OK).

If 3 MOSFETs are cheaper than one heatsink (for dissipating 6 Watt) then the 4 MOSFET solution is cheaper.

Also production costs might be slightly lower for placing 4 MOSFETS compared to 1 MOSFET + Heatsink as the MOSFET has to be screwed or clamped to the heatsink, that's manual work so adds cost.

An added benefit is that reliability becomes better as those 4 MOSFETs are by far not "worked" as hard as a the single MOSFET.

Could we use a "4x" bigger, 2.25 mohm MOSFET?

Sure, if you can find it ! 9 mohm is quite low already. It gets increasingly difficult (and more expensive) to get lower as the influence of bonding wires comes into play. Also for sure four "middle of the road" MOSFETs are cheaper than one big fat MOSFET.