I have my suspicions. But I rather speak with certainty rather than spout unfounded hypotheses as facts.

> Saying that some dependencies aren't heavy so the problem isn't dependencies doesn't make sense.

If I did say that. I said that isn't necessarily dependencies, because you have yet to prove it. If you do prove it, then that is that. As of now, all you've shown is that thread.

> Huge bloated binaries are from lots of bloated dependencies because people aren't actually writing 50MB of stuff to do what they need.

Restating what I've said prior, you are just asserting this, but have yet to prove it. For starters, what are the specific bloated dependencies? How much space does each dependency actually occupy in the final binary? A disassembly would answer those really quickly.