My take on this is there are two common meanings of 'bloated'. One means 'too many features' (without impact on performance of other features). Maybe it makes

My take on this is there are two common meanings of 'bloated'. One means 'too many features' (without impact on performance of other features). Maybe it makes things harder to figure out (though not necessarily). But it doesn't impact speed of execution, away from the bloat. The other is like a fat bloated human who just got finished eating way too much. Their belly distended, they find it hard to run or lift something heavy. They are slowed down. Vivaldi seems bloated in the first way, sure. It's like, a "wall of features". But it doesn't seem to me to be slow as a result. It seems faster than Chrome, Safari, or Firefox on my (macOS) main computer. True, I don't need most of the features. (But I love a few of them, such as the OmniWeb-style thumbnail tabs.) But I am not disadvantaged by them at all. I generally have 5-6 browsers open, and Vivaldi recently is usually among them. If it had in-built tracking protection (like Safari), or no-effort ad blocking (like Brave), it would probably be one of my "main" browsers.