It's a common feature of any evolving product or service that over time it becomes 'bigger' or more complete. Features are added to please and attract more people and a by-product of that growth and depth is that it can lose it's initial attractiveness. It also invariably gets slower - that is the interface we have into it requires a few more choice and buttons that are placed there to give us options.
Rarely is anything ever trimmed to make it faster. In our commercial world, cares are probably the only commodity that actually offer this, but these 'versions' aren't designed for the masses, they are the limited edition racing-esque models for those that can afford to take their fancy car to the track and blitz around it. Back seats are removed, as is the stereo, all for extra money and some go-faster paint job.
In a software or application sense, rarely is the goal to make it simpler, and less onerous...more true to it's core purpose. And that's a shame as good applications or fine products that do exactly as promised are few and far between. Items such as an abacus, a compass, barbed wire or zippers have remained largely the same for hundreds or even thousands of years. Should it be necessary to upgrade to the latest version only to be slowed down in it's actual purpose ?
I don't think so, this is a case of less is more.
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