If I may humbly ask, what is your definition of bloated? Bloated in technical sense that the software does not operate within your determined hardware constraints (valid!) or the philosophical sense that it has more features than your needs (also valid of course)?
My definition aligns with both definitions you described. Although I don't really have any hardware constraints that would stop me from running bash, zsh or fish, so my reasons for not wanting to use them, probably align better with your second definition.
However, I wouldn't consider the second definition to be philosophical, but technical. It has more features than my needs, therefore it has more lines of code, potentially more bugs, uses more memory and has a greater attack surface.
