Comment by peterisza

So:

  1. we save a couple of labour hours
  2. make every phone and computer a lot slower and more annoying to use for hundreds of millions of people

It is not just a lack of optimization, I don't even know what to call it at this point. Intentional wastefulness probably.

I am a software engineer but I can't even imagine how a flashlight app can be several megabytes. What is inside it?