If by "bloat" you mean the player giving the user internet access to Netflix, Vudu, Hulu, Amazon, etc..... then these are considered valuable features to most buyers and most manufacturer's are scrambling to add more of these features. I don't know why you would consider these features "bloat" though .... they can easily be ignored and they don't decrease the performance of the Blu-ray player.
-Dan
By 'bloat" I mean anything the addition to the Blu-ray player. In my case I have no need for streaming links ie Netflix... on a computer used for video editing.
If you want to go the other way, and get a player that does the "bloat" really well, but leaves off that somewhat archaic and clumsy optical disc player, I can recommend the Roku... ;-)