A reasonable comment, unfairly downvoted. That said, I do firmly agree with the parent: there is choice involved here, engineering decisions. The Microsoft wo

A reasonable comment, unfairly downvoted. That said, I do firmly agree with the parent: there is choice involved here, engineering decisions. The Microsoft world is particularly bloated, as they insist on shoehorning in unwanted anti-features into their OS. Much more efficient operating systems (and ways of building a chat client) exist. Jevon's paradox may describe a general tendency, but it's no excuse for awful software.