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Pseudominimalism
Pseudominimalism is the property of technology of trying to appear minimalist on the surface while being bloated on the inside. A typical example could be a website that has minimal look -- a blank white background with some fancy-font text perhaps -- which in the background uses dozens of JavaScript frameworks and libraries and requires a high end CPU to even appear responsive. Apple is heavily practicing pseudominimalism.
Another example are many modern CLI programs that code monkeys use to impress their YouTube viewers or to feel like matrix haxors. Some people think that anything running in command line is minimalist which is less and less true as we progress into the future. A lot of capitalist software add a CLI interface ex post on top of an already bloated program, often by simply disabling GUI (but leaving all its dependencies in). An example may be the gomux chat client.