As far as I’m concerned, developers have been upping minimum requirements to force people to feed an economy that simply doesn’t require growth in the first place. The majority of software doesn’t justify at all the insane amount of RAMs it consumes, or features it demands. It is ridiculous that Notepad in 2025 takes even seconds to load on a modern computer.
Hopefully this nonsense will come to an end, as people are no longer able to upgrade, developers will finally start putting in effort in optimizing their software.
I say “hopefully”, but I don’t actually believe this will happen. So yes, I’m taking the “watch the world burn” route.