> Size
As the author mentions, many users uses budget computers or something like a raspberry pi and not a big gaming rig, but you also have to consider the network usage, all that data needs to be downloaded, that in it self is a cost for the network for every computer running that distro.
I work from my laptop when I'm traveling, I use my phone as wifi hotspot, download gigabytes of data for installing some small app is not feasible.
And you also have to consider poor countries, in poor countries you don't have infinite downloads nor the largest drives.
I remember the old days of the critique against Windows from the Linux community, Windows forces you to constantly upgrade hardware even though that old machine still works fine. I guess this is now true for Linux too.
