[rossdavidh]

There is an analogous problem in city design, wherein it was discovered that it was empirically not possible to get the average commute down below a certain time, because as more roads were built people moved further away from town. If you build more lanes to your roads, you don't get a faster commute, you get more sprawl.

People spend time making software less bloated, when it's the number one problem they have. When hardware speed is taking care of making that only the #2 or #3 problem they have, then they will work on whatever the #1 problem is, meanwhile adding more software bloat.

When Moore's Law once and for all stops, due to some law of physics reason, then software bloat will become a priority. Until then, other things are.

[cortesoft]

Yeah, you are describing Braess's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

It is a form of Induced Demand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand