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Since you tagged @[email protected] I'll do the same so they see my counter...argument?
In it's first release(2017) it was 50.3MB.
In Nov, 2024, it was 340MB. Oct, 2024, 327MB
6th Jan, 2024: 266MB
24th Oct, 2023: 229MB
21st Oct, 2023: 180MB
30th Jul, 2023: 214MB
23rd Jun, 2023: 196MB
This is a very active project, things are added constantly, then optimised or tweaked or removed. Going through the releases it looks like their install packages get bigger over the span of a few months, then through optimisation gets shrunk down again. The above numbers are only for the windows full install package, but all their different packages have a very similar pattern of bloat followed by trimming. I don't see how this is weird at all.
What about this is actually concerning for you?