seems to be a common theme in software.

you have a great featureful program. someone says its too bloated. they start a new lightweight version (or make a fork), that does the subset of what they need. other folk gradually add what they need to the lightweight version. and by the time it has the enough features to please everyone people are calling it bloated again.

mozilla suite -> firefox -> epiphany/fennec
gnome -> xfcd -> lxde

i am sure there are others