Only because we've decided as a profession that optimizing for binary size is low priority when compared to speed of development, maintainability, and framework's features, among others.

Sure and thats usually a reasonable thing to do these days when storage space and bandwidth are pretty cheap.

It was really just an observation that 12 floppy disks isn't really very much. I guess random observations are downvotable offenses on HN, but thats ok too.

Nah, no-one made that decision. We just all got lazy.

We made the decision collectively. By being lazy, in a good way.