2GB is 1.5% of the storage for a mid-range (128GB) late-2016 iPhone; or 6% of the storage for the lowest-end (32GB) iPhone SE.
Any decent product team – which I assume these apps have – is tracking this, and is continuously setting direction for the tradeoffs among space optimization, speed optimization, bandwidth optimization, battery life, usability, stability, server costs, feature velocity, and probably a half dozen other factors.
The implication of some of the comments here is that they've been making these tradeoffs incorrectly. I'd be interested to hear more about the reasoning behind this conclusion.
Any decent product team – which I assume these apps have – is tracking this, and is continuously setting direction for the tradeoffs among space optimization, speed optimization, bandwidth optimization, battery life, usability, stability, server costs, feature velocity, and probably a half dozen other factors.
The implication of some of the comments here is that they've been making these tradeoffs incorrectly. I'd be interested to hear more about the reasoning behind this conclusion.