your point about bloat being business driven rather than devs is accurate. one point though: "Adobe even scrupulously documents how their products deviate from

your point about bloat being business driven rather than devs is accurate. one point though: "Adobe even scrupulously documents how their products deviate from the standard" that is being a bit generous. Even though the pdf spec is around a thousand pages there are still many areas where it is vague or allows multiple different implementations. in a lot of cases the only way to find out what acrobat does (and therefore what the users expect) is to load the document and see how it differs from what you expected.