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"Bloat" is a loaded term. It's meaningless to say "Look at all this code! It's bloated!" when you don't know the reason those lines are there, and comparing two "solutions" is meaningless when they don't solve all the same problems.

Mainly, I'm just getting tired of people trying to cut things out of the solution by cutting them out of the problem.

Saying that it's possible to solve a problem in a simpler fashion is fine. Saying a problem shouldn't be solved, that nobody should have that problem, so therefore we won't solve it, is not fine if you then turn around and compare your cut-down solution to the full solution.



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