You’re right on other fronts, but this is more like the classic one-upsmanship of basic competition. The loser srops trying to innovate on their own and tries to immitate the winner, rarely successfully.

Elon and his cyberfuck are a better example of what you’re describing.

Bloat caused by bundled apps is different than bloat caused by the OS being a hodgepodge mess of ancient features, half baked new “features”, and spyware.

Of course clean ISOs still install the horseshit known as Microsoft Windows; most of the crap comes from windows itself.

and copilot on a cheap handheld that cannot do anything except record you 24/7 and send it off to MS servers?