I dunno, by wildly extrapolating current trends, by 2050 a typical text-based message will already consume several MB of bloat, Javascript, subliminal advertise

I dunno, by wildly extrapolating current trends, by 2050 a typical text-based message will already consume several MB of bloat, Javascript, subliminal advertisements, superliminal advertisements, JSONs encoding XML encoding JSONs encoding base64 encodings of..., 128-bit float variable font settings, prayers to the Packet Gnomes, and more Javascript. In comparison, a few extra kb won't seem so bad.