I don't recall accusing you of claiming everything is under the cycle of bloat. What I disagreed with was the way you characterized and described the growth of

I don't recall accusing you of claiming everything is under the cycle of bloat. What I disagreed with was the way you characterized and described the growth of pluggable software. You might not have intended it, but a reasonable reader would have interpreted your post as a, "This is what happens to software with an extensible plugin system".