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It's way easier to acquire stuff than it is to get rid of it, whether it's website bloat or personal possessions. It takes discipline to adhere to procedures that trim unneeded code / dependencies as they loses relevance. If you don't do it while the reason the code was put in in the first place was fresh in mind, there will be a natural tendency to kick the can down the road.

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Not to mention, when they load up on all the new stuff, they try it out on fairly modern machines and it loads well enough, with a load time that's just good enough, so there's even less motivation to trim down.

I also would love to have leaner websites and less bloat, but I recognize that good enough still passes for good enough. It's only when they go past a tipping point do people pay attention, such as when iMore got called out by John Gruber.

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