I think both the article and the comments miss the point. If you take a Linux distro, it is actually bloated, in the sense that it has a lot of useless stuff th

I think both the article and the comments miss the point. If you take a Linux distro, it is actually bloated, in the sense that it has a lot of useless stuff that take space. However, it's built on a solid, stable architecture which allow bloat management. Same with vim: I have seen vim setups that are complete bloat, with hundreds of plugins, and even plugins managing plugins. But this is managed, manageable, because based on a well defined base. There is a comment about Django: yes, bloated and managed, because it is based on python, which is the same, a minimal and solid set of orthogonal concepts upon which bloat is easily managed.