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Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it. That's why the user experience doesn't get any faster.

The disparity is that an ERP system that managed the customers, suppliers, production and employees of a multi million dollar business was a smaller executable than a single blog page nowadays that does nothing more than present information on a screen for someone to read.

The ratio of computing power & code size versus the meaningful work done _with_ it seems to be out of kilter somewhat.

It isn't strange, because what is being compared here is the utility of the website and the utility of the ERP. The amount of work (and, subjective though it is, the value of that work) done vis a vis the number of MBs each occupies.