Or basic bitch software like mod loaders coming in hot with 1.4 GB installs because they're made by faggots on SDKs who have to bundle the entire fucking thing.

I had one crisis where I couldn't figure out where my C: drive space went, turns out I had to install some Python SDK and unbeknownst to me the Python SDK downloader required some fucking insane 20GB piece of shit software bundle.

The thing is, hard drive space has NOT increased. HDDs reached 2TB and basically stopped. SSDs reach 4TB now and there's not much larger. And not much matters in that regard anyway because only specialist boards support more than one or two m.2 connections.

Pass a law that has a 'size tax' where every GB of your install comes with a tax the developer has to pay and watch these sizes shrink to reasonable levels.