When I say bloat, I do mostly mean "human-side," not "computer-side" of things. Again, if it works for you it works, but from my POV the idea of opening up a ma

When I say bloat, I do mostly mean "human-side," not "computer-side" of things. Again, if it works for you it works, but from my POV the idea of opening up a massive application, a web browser, that's mostly unrelated to the task at hand -- when leaner, older, well-proven approaches exist is super-odd to me. I have actually seen this before, and here's the observation: Consider someone who starts off text-mangling in Javascript, and then later has a go at a more "classic" approach, e.g. command-line with Bash or Python or even Perl. Then consider the reverse; someone who starts off classic and learns/tries this Javascript approach. I'd be willing to bet huge sums of money that a decent number of the Javascript people will end up adopting the classic approach, and that very few, possibly zero, of the classic people will adopt the Javascript approach.