> A major reason applications get bloated is because development time costs the company more than client bandwidth and CPU do.

If development time was really the biggest issue then I think we'd be seeing far fewer SPAs and complicated frameworks along with many more drag and drop VB apps or simple cgi sites, especially on internal tooling for small-medium companies. These also generally perform much better.

But between developers wanting to work on more exciting things and PHBs wanting sexier looking apps we end up with the current nightmare.