Its about playing to your strengths. Outside of the geek-world, most consumers dont use specialised apps for each function. For example, most consumers are pleased that they can drag & drop MP3 files into nero and come out 5 minutes later with a nice shiny AudioCD. Same goes for Videos too. So in this case, would you say that Nero having the capability to convert between formats was a negative point? Same goes, for further functions too. Ultimately, Nero is used by a large number of consumers & the makers KNOW it. So therefore, they want to ensure, that whatever you wanna do, if its related to writing a CD, Nero should figure somewhere in your plans. And this is not a simple story of bloat. This strategy helps to maintain competitiveness, as in, more ppl are likely to buy Nero, since its a one-stop-shop, for a range of operations. And if that approach of "centralise" helps to simplify what an end-user has to do, then thats a bonus to be reaped. Of course, some of us power-users want to go in the opposite direction. For which ppl have made tools like NCAB, for stripping out everything!