Modern software that does more or less the same thing as old software uses 10X to sometimes as much as 100X the resources to do the same thing. I am arguing tha

Modern software that does more or less the same thing as old software uses 10X to sometimes as much as 100X the resources to do the same thing. I am arguing that more colors, higher resolutions, and prettier text is not sufficient to account for this bloat. Examples: simple paint programs, text editors, terminals, mail clients, basic word processing, and so on. In all cases resource requirements have exploded to an extent that can't easily be explained by gains in features or capability.