system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are "simple fix" patches for games always something like 30 megabytes?

Shouldn't they be very few, due to them not adding anything?
gpt
Fixing one line of code may require recompiling a large portion of object files. These object files in turn get linked together into a binary executable. The executable is what is shipped instead of object files or precompiled code.