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Sure, but the way in which gappz.zip gets installed (via recovery), does make those core things have the same uninstallable state as regular Android.
Which is why you cannot now uninstall Gmail and Play Services.
And so every update to those will be a file system duplicate.
My original point still stands, over a few years whatever the advertised and initial size of an OS, what is considered the OS will have grown.
The only advantage with Cyanogen to reduce the likelihood of that, is that you are probably likely to wipe your phone and reinstall everything if it ever gets sluggish or you want to recover all your usable space and think that reinstalling is faster than pruning.