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by c22 3032 days ago
Probably because their $3000 desktops are grinding to a crawl under these unwieldy stacks of cruft. The market might not care but that's only because most users are too naive to realize that spending hundreds to thousands of dollars a year upgrading their phones and laptops is neither necessary nor desirable. Eventually consumers in this space will gain more awareness and these wasteful software development practices will have to end.