> I don’t think 2.5 GB is a lot nowadays. Xcode is over 12 GB, iMovie over 4 GB, MS Word 2 over GB

Word is ridiculous, agreed. Xcode isn't mandatory (although I'd LOVE to have it ship without tons of mandatory SDKs, emulators and god knows what else makes up the 12 GB) and I'm not sure if iMovie is.

> Is that ‘having to’? I thought those models only get downloaded after you give permission to do so.

I can't remember having ever given macOS the permission to install Siri and the likes.

> /Library/Printers is 12 MB on my system, for example and /Library/Audio 584 kB.

Indeed, tried on another machine, no printer drivers there. Probably the culprit is HP, their drivers suck balls. /Library/Audio however, that's just the same size on my M2 MBA as it is on my 2019 MBP.