Hell yeah. I think it was Spyro -- anyway, some psx game -- that had to literally go through the source code and declare integers like i outside of loops, so they could be reused. All so the game would fit on disc.
Tbh I really hated the krudling posts on reddit, but here not so much. Maybe because I don't feel like the platform is gaming my engagement, so I don't have to feel guilty
This is called the "network effect," so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It's what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so "sticky." It's what makes platform-capitalism work.
This but with perl compatible regular expressions