> Users have absolutely no clue, and literally do not care

When their smartphone is 3 years old and has no more storage space, they say "the smartphone is old, I need a new one".

Because they don't know that this is a problem of the software industry being extremely bad doesn't mean that it has no impact on them.

Since when are engineers not users too?

When they make up a fraction of a percentage of users. If there was any pressure from users to make smaller apps, Spotify would have done it.

Phones are literally sold at different prices when they have more storage. People are familiar with being unable to install more apps or take more pictures. Happens all the time.

Get out of your bubble.

You are in the HN bubble. Layman users do not notice. They only care if the app works or not. A 700MB app on a phone with at minimum 128GB is nothing.

If you use your phone for just 1 app… sure.

I've never encountered anyone at all doing that though.