Over time, all software tends to get bigger and not necessarily better. Windows went from 7MB required (95) to 6GB required (Vista), 1000x bigger, in just 10 y

Over time, all software tends to get bigger and not necessarily better. Windows went from 7MB required (95) to 6GB required (Vista), 1000x bigger, in just 10 years. It's true in file formats as well and verbosity is one of the reasons XML was/is so hated. There is an irresitable urge to make things bigger bigger bigger, and huge cpu, mem, and disk resources are essentially free.