Not sure where the JVM "bloat" moral panic comes from. You can have one instance per system and if you're very concerned with space, you can put it in a squashfs image or 7z archive and mount the latter using FUSE. Just ran a test:

27493121 jdk-8u422-jre.7z
28188489 jdk-22+34.7z

For comparison:

5554652 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a
80555360 /bin/hugo
16661392 /bin/audacity
4906512 /bin/obs

Download a few apps that statically link to glibc (even though in most cases it's questionably legal...) and JVM no longer feels like bloat.