> I've never even understood the obsession with minimizing base image size, because it's not like it gets loaded into memory, and the fact that it's a base imag

> I've never even understood the obsession with minimizing base image size, because it's not like it gets loaded into memory, and the fact that it's a base image means you share it with multiple images anyway, so you rarely even need to download or upload the layer over the network. Isn’t it also the case that less “bloat” can mean less code that potentially leads to fewer bugs? Reducing bloat can have other benefits sometimes.