it's not really a loop, but there are really two categories of users : * those who want applications that take the least space on the drive, and share most of

it's not really a loop, but there are really two categories of users : * those who want applications that take the least space on the drive, and share most of their data / libraries across themselves - shared electron runtime, steam runtime shared with the os * those who want applications to conform exactly to what the developper used since the developer can guarantee a "working" configuration Ideally it should be up to the user to choose what configuration he wants, but the problem is that it's up to the developer to make that choice. Thus, the eternal loop : applications released as a blob -> this takes too much disk space, we should use shared libraries ! -> applications released as shared libraries -> DLL hell -> applications released as a blob -> ...