My experience too, and that's not even touching the disproportionately high RAM usage of frameworks like Electron. Sure, "unused RAM is wasted RAM", until the system starts swapping heavily because of the high RAM usage.
It doesn't even have to be old devices, there are still laptops being sold with 8GB of RAM in 2026.
It doesn't even have to be old devices, there are still laptops being sold with 8GB of RAM in 2026.