[hnwizard]

I totally agree, there's no economic incentive, and sadly the "industry" will make sure complexity/size/scale will keep on growing. How much more performance and quantity do we need in CPU/RAM/storage/storage bandwidth for regular apps which I assume is the vast majority of computing at home/office.

Sure, games are ever-demanding and will continue going that way probably for a while longer especially on the pure graphics side.

Many apps do contain truck loads of libraries and dependencies, which have dependencies and all of that alone, accounts to massive code size.