It's not just Windows that is bloated; so is macOS, Android, and iOS. The wastefulness annoys me and I don't want to hear its okay because we have tons of disk space and RAM - it is still wasteful.
I understand why they kitchen-sink operating systems - its mainly so they can crow about new features when releasing new versions of the OS. But I wish they would offer alternate installs for those of us who are proficient.
On android I'm still severely limited by disk space and RAM, the waste is very noticeable. It still is on PC for most users too, cheap SSD's are still quite small, there are a lot of new laptops sold with 64GB SSD's and 2GB RAM. Good luck running anything in node.
I would really like to have a Linux-style OS on my smartphone and not the bloated Android Java which looks like the Win32 API re-engineered for smartphones.
I understand why they kitchen-sink operating systems - its mainly so they can crow about new features when releasing new versions of the OS. But I wish they would offer alternate installs for those of us who are proficient.