[detaro]

Interesting that "avoids causing unnecessary costs" is not a quality metric to you. It's fun to see how it can suddenly become a really really important metric on platforms with size limitations, even if they do not care about "cost to users", which is the more common effect of binary size.

[oblio]

That cost is frequently swamped by development costs, runtime costs, support costs. Platforms with super restrictive size limitations are a small minority, these days you can plop a 5-10MB binary on your toaster.