Hanlon's razor maybe applies. I have no way to know if they're trying to do what you say, but the article explains what's going on and it's not hard to see how

Hanlon's razor maybe applies. I have no way to know if they're trying to do what you say, but the article explains what's going on and it's not hard to see how a flawed schema and implementors going by the letter and not putting any effort into minimising the data volumes could result in this without any malice. Any individual company is presumably producing a fraction of the petabyte total and people are as astonishingly lazy with data sizes now as computers are astonishingly capable of handling them. I'm routinely seeing multi-gigabyte executables these days (don't get me started). Also the article says the schema is published in github and CMS is responsive to feedback on it, so things will hopefully improve. I thought this was a really good article. I wasn't expecting to read all the way through a blog about something that doesn't affect me in the slightest but I did.