[pdimitar]

> If you are equally picky and constrain yourself to parts of the ecosystem which care about binary size, you still have more options and can avoid size issues.

The market and your boss do not care about that. They want tasks X and Y done. You have no time to vet 15 alternatives and pick the most frugal one in terms of binary size. Not to mention that for many tasks you have no more than 3-4 alternatives anyway, and none of them prioritize binary size. What are you going to do? Roll your own? Deadline is looming ever closer, I hope you can live without sleep for several days then.

We all know the ideal theory.