I have a hard time believing that. Yeah it may take meg or so extra space, but if you think that is bloated it is time to upgrade that PDP 10 to a phone were it is about a rounding error.
Can you articulate this any more than a really poor analogy that falls flat for more than one reason?
Do you just have a problem with the native components that are all always there versus just the shim pieces you need, etc? Any evidence that that really causes any sort of perceivable issue? It seems like it would all be microscopic compared to... anything else in a real application.
To me, it's like using Java for a Windows desktop app.