The weight still hurts the user experience. All that RAM still has to get written to disk for sleep/hibernate, and loading it back from disk is in the critical

The weight still hurts the user experience. All that RAM still has to get written to disk for sleep/hibernate, and loading it back from disk is in the critical path of wake from that sleep. It still fills up CPU caches, which keeps them from running at maximal efficiency (both speed-wise and power-wise). Extra weight will always matter for people who want to deliver first-rate user experiences.