This. As always, there's a relevant xkcd[1]. Features that I might decry as bloat are probably someone else's "necessary, to be preserved at all costs" features

This. As always, there's a relevant xkcd[1]. Features that I might decry as bloat are probably someone else's "necessary, to be preserved at all costs" features. If you want to cover a large number of use cases, you have to include all of them. And with that comes bloat. There's a reason why even a minimalist CLI-only Linux installation requires more than 24MB of RAM when Windows 3.1 runs on 3MB - the Linux kernel is capable of a hell of a lot more. [1]https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/