very few human-created text documents get anywhere near 2MB.
True, but as a programmer i very often generate and need to view files greater than 2MB.
True, but as a programmer i very often generate and need to view files greater than 2MB.
Not to mention log files which commonly consume megabytes.
You shouldn't open log files with an editor unless your intent is to edit the file. There are a whole host of tools (grep, less, awk, sed, etc) useful for parsing and exploring log files.
Insisting on all tools having an X because X is a useful thing is how you get the very bloat the GP is talking about.