I'd love for every application to be a few megabytes in size like in the old days. I'm a big proponent of building applications using native code and OS native

I'd love for every application to be a few megabytes in size like in the old days. I'm a big proponent of building applications using native code and OS native controls, as far as those still exist. Unfortunately, nobody sells that software anymore. If you think you can make competing software for the Teams/Slacks of this world that runs the way programs written for Windows 2000 run today by just convincing a few developers not to be lazy, you stand to make a LOT of money. I'd welcome your attempt for sure. Everyone knows there's no strict necessity to modern desktop bloat, but nobody seems to have come up with a solution other than "what if we all did a lot more hard work (mostly for free)".