A few years ago my wife and I moved to France. We live in a small town on the coast and don't have kids (yet). So when time came to choose a car, I picked Peugeot 206. Small(ish), but enough for the two of us and easy to park in the crowded streets of Antibes-Juan Les Pins.

I like luxury (and my wife adores it ;) ) so I took practically all extra equipment (sans GPS and sunroof) - we got automatic air-conditioning, automatic wipers, automatic lights, car complains audibly for most of the small things like door left open, hand brake is on etc. I've been pretty happy about the choice for the past three years or so.

My wife recently got her driving license - she got tired of asking me to drive her everywhere or to organize car pooling with my colleagues so that the wives can go somewhere together. And now we have a problem - each time one of us uses the car after the other, we have to set up all the mirrors, height and distance of the driver seat and if it made any difference, we'd probably adjust the height of the steering wheel too.

As you might know (or not) more expensive car models include the feature where all these settings can be saved in a driver profile and recalled at any time.  It's like software - there are users and roles and per-user settings.

Some might call this feature bloat, but I'd pay for this serious money. It gets really annoying and the only alternative is even worse - to buy another car. But it's too late now - if I want this I have to buy another car.

So next time you think how the app you're using is “bloated” think of this - one day you might need that “stupid” feature. If it doesn't slow the app down and does not waste memory or disk space - be thankful; you never know, you might  need it sooner than later.