You've more or less described Wirth's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Since I have a long history with Sun Microsystems, upon seeing "Andy and Bill's Law" I immediately thought this was a reference to Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun hardware guy) and Bill Joy (Sun software guy). Sun had its own history of software bloat, with the latest software releases not fitting into contemporary hardware.