Let me add fuel to the fire. When I started my career, users were happy to select among a handful of 8x8 bitmap font. Nowadays, users expect to see a scalable male-doctor-skin-ton-1 emoji. The former can be implemented by bliting 8 bytes from ROM. The latter requires an SVG engine -- just to render one character.

While bloatware cannot be excluded, let's not forget that user expectations have temendously increased.