Sure it's not cruft when they're images in your image library and you need to find them and understand them using said metadata.
It's cruft when those assets are now embedded into your compiled, bundled, distributed software and such metadata now has no purpose whatsoever, as is the case for the examples cited in the article.
It's cruft when those assets are now embedded into your compiled, bundled, distributed software and such metadata now has no purpose whatsoever, as is the case for the examples cited in the article.