This article is using the term "bloat" quite liberally, I'm not sure it means what the author thinks it means. Some of it seems legit, like the complaints about there being excessive javascript and CSS and whatnot on web pages, but the article also describes the use of water to cool server farms as "bloat" and the use of LLMs to help produce sales proposals for clients as "bloat." Not really sure how that applies there. I feel like perhaps this started off with a concise thesis and then - ironically - bloated out to try to fit absolutely everything the author thought was "unnecessary" under that term.