Effect of rounding off ADC value
How wide is the word width of the processor receiving these 10-bit values from the A/D converter?  Wider than 8 bits?

What is there to gain by adding another layer of quantization error?

What you have here is a highly dithered signal that is dithered naturally.  Sometimes in audio we actually go out of our way to dither a signal so that further processing and quantization is better.

If your processor is 8 bits wide and you absolutely do not want to do multi-byte arithmetic (with an Add-with-carry instruction) or do not have the computational bandwidth to do higher precision arithmetic, then perhaps it makes sense to quantize your noisy 10-bit value to an 8-bit value.  Otherwise it does not.