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I agree with this. The two banking apps I have installed are ~250MB and ~180MB (Chase and Capitol One), but I had no idea about either until I just checked. As far as satisfying me as a user is concerned, any effort spent optimizing for storage is wasted.

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Size is meaningless by itself but it's a decent proxy for quality.

I know publicly benchmarking DBs is mostly illegal, but I wonder if public analysis of common consumer apps for consumers' informed benefit would fall into similar gray areas.

Why is benchmarking dbs illegal?

Not illegal, but against the license terms so could land you in a lawsuit.

The ones that charge money make you sign licenses with very draconian terms.

DeWitt Clause? Big corps really dislike provable metrics of enshittification.

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