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by dkersten 3054 days ago
I would say: almost. Features I don’t use, that are just kind of there but don’t get in my way aren’t seen as bloat, only the ones that complicate my workflow in some way. For example, I find Jira bloated, because it has loads of options and menus that I must consider when I want to do something, even though I will never use 90% of them, creating an issue has a huge form to fill in, but I only care about maybe 5 or 6 of the fields. These extra features that I don’t use cause cognitive overhead and therefore I consider them bloat. The feature that doesn’t interfere or cause overhead isn’t considered bloat, even if I never use it.