I did reply (#14) as such, having a clean fresh install in a VBox.
No you did not. Read again what was written. You did a standard install with all recommended packages and changed the behaviour afterwards. This is completely different from a base installation without recommended packages. You would cry because you would be lost with your level of knowledge as susejunky explained.
It is you that has a strong meaning that “extra” packages added during system installation are “bloatware”. It is you that asked: "why isn’t “-no-recommends” (sic) a default. See:
Asking this to your fellow users may not be the best audience (better ask the developers of the distribution), but @arvidjaar then asked you to do as if it was the default (in other words set it to --no-recommends) during installation. Most probably so you can see for yourself and maybe give yourself an answer to your question.
As we all see and told you several times, you did not suppress the installation of recommended packages during system installation. You only set it after installation when the mass of recommended is already installed.
So either you explain that we understood your original question wrong. Or you do the test. Or you explain that you are satisfied with @susejunky 's stories about what he found out and that it answered your question. Or maybe another option. But please do not try to tell us that you tested what happens if no recommended packages will be installed at system installation.
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