I did see one code bloat ebook recently. It had different spans that did not seem to do anything on every word!
Looked the same after removal (I was working on a copy too) and size changed from 2.5M to 0.6M, but that's very rare. Also I'm not sure it made discernable difference to reading the ebook. There were messed up chapter and section (Book 1 to Book 5) headings visible, which is why I opened and edited the ebook.
I forget the title, but I think it was from a small publisher and other titles from them were fine.
I do remove the penguins in chapter headings and some other pointless stuff from some books from the house of random penguins. It makes little difference to size or performance.
In general, real reflowable ebooks do not have code bloat of some programs, or some PDFs or some fixed layout electronic books (some are epub3 and some are really PDFs in an Amazon wrapper).
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The answer is no, there is no appreciable code loading or execution differences 99% of the time.
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On this occasion I'd agree with all KevinH is writing.
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Simpler is better until it is not. Be careful making changes not fully understood.
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Absolutely.