What people also forget is that if Windows 11 requires 8GB of RAM while Windows 98 only required 8MB, that's 3 orders of magnitude. If we adjust the size of our modern "bloated" applications using the same scale, an app that today takes 100MB on disk, would be equivalent to a just 100KB in 1998, an Electron app that uses 1GB of memory would be equivalent to one that took only 1MB 30 years ago.
Apps today are no more bloated than they were last century, while we gained a lot of functionalities that would have been considered witchcraft in the days of Win98.
Apps today are no more bloated than they were last century, while we gained a lot of functionalities that would have been considered witchcraft in the days of Win98.