My point is that its a developer decision to add the bloat, not a Sourceforge decision. AFAIK there are many titles on Sourceforge which are bloat free - if that's changed maybe they should be renamed Sourceforce
I know a free utility developer whose downloads have stayed roughly constant over the past decade (2-3K/month) but over the past 3 years donations have declined by over 60% - austerity, austerity.
BR