It seems like lots of people who didn't have low bandwidth so previously used YouTube anyway, switched to using Feather because the page was smaller by being fo

It seems like lots of people who didn't have low bandwidth so previously used YouTube anyway, switched to using Feather because the page was smaller by being focused more narrowly on their needs. By the sounds of it, though, it was a net loss for Google, which is why the page is still so big. Much of the code might have been irrelevant (even harmful) for the end user, but was necessary for Google's business model. So a side-learning ignored by the article is that there are more types of stakeholder than just the end users, especially in applications that are free (as in beer) at the point of use. And more stakeholders means more complex solutions. And more complex solutions typically mean more code and bigger pages.