And force your users to buy extra CPU* Development time may be more expensive than hardware if you're developing internal software for a small-ish company, or

And force your users to buy extra CPU* Development time may be more expensive than hardware if you're developing internal software for a small-ish company, or something extremely niche, but less so when the bloat saves some time for your relatively small team in exchange for bringing massive pain to the thousands/millions of your users. I personally refuse to use "bloated" software even when there's no alternative, but it's a drop in the ocean. Some of the folks I know can't take the same stance simply because they don't know that a text messenger doesn't have to eat half of your machine resources and slurp the battery to zero in half an hour of usage. For them it's just something you have to deal with.