The more I look at “modern” web sites and apps, the more I think that there should be a way to force software providers to offer discounts if their products are, essentially, bloated. (Prior to getting the software, you cannot tell how it is going to be implemented.)

There is a measurable cost to me for using these “lazy” apps:

- time and data plan spent downloading and updating these monsters

- my disk space (yes, my previous laptop ran out of space, which is hard to accept when you see “simple” apps using hundreds of megabytes)

- my battery life and utility bill (it is easy to measure the absurd CPU use of some of these things)

I am literally subsidizing your development with my own resources, because you couldn’t be bothered to create something that is at least moderately optimized for users.