It's worth researching the demoscene[0] and how demos that looked very complex were made with as few lines of code as possible. Every byte was accounted for and nothing went to waste.

This is a common thing in games and Super Mario even re-used the cloud sprite for the bushes[1]

Now we have to deal with gargantuan Electron apps that hog your PC's resources for housing what essentially is a lightweight webapp.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

[1] https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/the-clouds-...