It's more nuanced than that. A large share of software bloat is tied to awkward combinations of device convergence and modularity. I'll give an analogy with pen

It's more nuanced than that. A large share of software bloat is tied to awkward combinations of device convergence and modularity. I'll give an analogy with pens: * Dip pens and brushes, the original inking tools, rely on the user having a pot of ink available and some fine-pointed object capable of holding the ink. It's very simple, but this two-piece design limits situational use and requires the tip to be scrubbed off like used silverware. But you are relatively unlimited in what you put in the ink and the style of the nib, making it one of the best artist's tools even today. * Fountain pens innovated by creating a reservoir inside the pen, and a feed mechanism. This creates a modular pen body, allowing the user to customize a body with different inks, reservoir mechanisms(cartridge, piston, etc.) and nibs. However, the ink has to be liquid enough to gravity feed, and cleaning the pen and fixing feed issues is a more involved process, making fountain pens reputed as a temperamental platform with many tradeoffs for portability. Disposable ballpoints and markers devised a one-size-fits-all solution: make refills be the "whole pen", comprising tip and reservoir, and leaving the body as just a shell. This has allowed the designs to become very intensively engineered, with customized gel ink formulas, rubberized marker tips, etc. However, most of these designs are not made for longevity in some dimension - gel refills dry up, oil-based refills fade, marker tips get smashed. As well, there is a limited range of line styles achievable from a ball or marker. Lastly, there is a recurring Kickstarter scam in which a "printer pen" is demonstrated, with selectable RGB color. Besides the fact that this product doesn't really exist, it would make the pen into something even more complex than a fountain pen. So in solving technical problems, I think computing necessarily converges on answers similar to how pens are engineered: if you want it to be very simple and exacting, it's a dip pen, and you have to "plug it in" each time. If you want it to be easy-use, to last a while and to get out of the way, you want a pack of Bic ballpoints. If you want some mix of those things, you end up in the space of markers or fountain pens. But software lets us make the RGB pen, actually have it work and be used by people. And that is a problem, because now our expectations are that nobody should have to use a dip pen ever again, when a large part of the population didn't even get exposed to them and lacks the agency to choose.