Hasn't rebooted since the app delete/reboot couple of hours ago. I installed "Bootlog Uptime" so I can track whether it is rebooting when I'm not looking. AFAIK this is/was completely new behavior (though it has spontaneously rebooted a few times since I got it ~3-years ago, usually after an OTA update).

Soz (((Smiffy))), sounds like a pain in the bum. 

Reading through the post sequence, I was going to write something like 'leave it there, what's 30mb?' but or course neither I, nor you, nor any self-respecting geek would or could have ever done that.  Fuck knows how many hours - days indeed - I have spent wrangling stuff (and fucking bigger stuff up as a consequence) because it would be neater thus.

Yeah, my concern was that it was some kind of malware that had its hooks in me. Also, I was wondering if it were merely a symptom of some underlyiing issue, like old age even. Not that I would know anything about that. Anyways I got rid of it.