Because it's an axis of numerical optimization that can be carried out of context anywhere, freely ignored or harped upon at will. See also: "your _____ takes

Because it's an axis of numerical optimization that can be carried out of context anywhere, freely ignored or harped upon at will. See also: "your _____ takes too much memory." "Your ____ takes more computational resources than _____." E.g., The new existential threat for the entire programming world is Atom/VSCode and other Electron apps. In short, it's people without a point hoping to discredit something for various reasons.