Bloat doesn’t just consume time, it also consumes brainspace / causes stress.
Something that I’ve noticed while trying to build apps is that the less bloat there is, the better. I think this also applies to customer experience in businesses. I think businesses should just be bloat-free in general.
Identifying bloat:
If something doesn’t affect me positively in anyway, it’s bloat
Examples:
Culture war
Politics
Streamer/Content Creator Beef/Controversy
If it’s something that requires way too much effort for too little benefit or self-fulfillment, it’s bloat
Examples:
Maintaining certain gacha game dailies
If I do something for the express purpose of making money and it’s neither: growing nor making money, it’s probably bloat.