I mostly see bloat created for other reasons. Think about situations like Docker containers replacing single applications (and dragging entire Linux userspace

I mostly see bloat created for other reasons. Think about situations like Docker containers replacing single applications (and dragging entire Linux userspace installation with them). Deploying in Kubernetes with its own CNI as well as DNS server and a bunch of other networking-related stuff while the network in your datacenter already does all of that. Packaging the whole Python virtual environment into a DEB or RPM package instead of shipping just the library you want users to install. This bloat is harder to deal with, on organization level, because people creating it justify it by saving on development effort necessary to make the product leaner. There's no financial incentive to not use Docker for deployment (and spend developer's time ensuring the code works on different platforms with different libraries). And software industry isn't the only victim of this situation. First time I ever encountered this was in a... church. American missionaries coming to the former Soviet republics would bring with them pocket Bible for free handouts. Since I studied printing, to me this pocket Bible was strange in many ways. It was printed on paper lighter than 20 g/m^2. This was unheard of in Soviet printing industry. If it ever tried to produce such paper it would simply fall apart because they didn't have access to the technology necessary to produce plastics that held this paper together. Because the paper was too thin, it required a lot of "filler" (again, more plastic). And that made it worse for recycling. It was printed using offset machine. Soviet industry didn't print literature using offset machines. They didn't have the technology for making precise high-resolution plates necessary for such printing, so letterpress printing would be the way to do it. But, letterpress makes a noticeable difference in texture of the page, it also pretty much prevents you from using "unorthodox" font sizes, ensuring that the font's author could see exactly how letters are going to look on a page, making the overall experience much more pleasant. All in all, it was kind of a technological marvel I knew I couldn't achieve with what I had / knew, on the other hand, all this technology was intended to decrease cost at the expense of marginal drops in quality. In truth, at the time, I didn't think this way. I saw the technological marvel part, and didn't notice the drops in quality. The realization came a lot later.