The applications have binaries and libraries bundled for multiple arches. I wasn't speaking to the package manager.
Of the future? They're a duplicate of what Apple was doing with software as far back as the mid 90s.Every ounce of performance we squeeze out of our hardware is replaced with pounds of bloat like this.It's fine for a utility or something you'll hardly ever need to use, but running every day software like this is a complete waste.
Money is just a way for us to exchange labor indirectly. Stealing money is stealing another person's time.
Having every application load their own version of a library into memory is bloat.