This gave me a good laugh. Like, who could have known?

There's absolutely no reason why a simple chat client should take more than a fraction of a second to start. If you need to fetch data from the web, just do it progressively. Not to mention that 290 MB is still way too much.

It's ridiculous how over the last 20 years simple apps became slower and slower while computers became faster and faster.

At the same time, REAPER (a full digital audio workstation) opens in less than a second.

These so-called software engineers seem to have completely lost the baseline of what is possible on modern computers. Or they just don't care.