When Windows 10 Mobile was a thing, Microsoft had written a very competent Facebook application to go along with it.

The original version was 18MB. The official Facebook-written version was nearly 300MB, with the bonus that it disabled the old app.

I wrote about it then: https://medium.com/hackernoon/how-not-to-transition-an-app-b...

2014 (Android) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8162342

2015 (scale) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10271586 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066338

2018 (491MB) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995954

2020 (Messenger) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22466462

2020 (SDK) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23790207

I've talked with folks that have worked on their code.

I think that it's unreasonable to expect a Lambo (or even a Yugo) to accommodate a 300Kg man.

I found the PDF if anyone is curious.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16lDaCfEjT7Z72EEDFBo5r3lTDCV...

I'm not sure what I just read though.

I found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275396

But no comments, and no votes, so it must have been another thread, thereabouts. It was quite some years ago.