Speaking not about the product but the idea behind the editorial, I can't tell you how painful the size issue is. It causes reindex havoc for me because in my last job I HAD to restore the DB on a weekly basis to an environment that didn't have enough disk space for the expanded DB (but did for the data) so I had to shrink the files after a reindex, even though I knew it could make more problems for the fragmentation. I had no choice as the dang thing wouldn't restore otherwise. Something like what the editorial is about is critical to support developement environments IMO.