Is it a waste if it's getting used? I know this argument tends to become a bit philosophical, but if (ab)using memory the way that browsers or Electron does me

Is it a waste if it's getting used? I know this argument tends to become a bit philosophical, but if (ab)using memory the way that browsers or Electron does means that programs can be written faster, be safer, and can run on more platforms, then is it really being wasted? Sure, it's not runtime efficient in many cases, but that's not the only thing that matters, and it's pretty far from the top priority for many. I quite frankly make a ludicrous amount of money doing software development. Spending even $1000 on an upgrade to my machine that makes me 1% more productive would end up paying for itself in less than a year. For me, RAM isn't something I worry about, I have 32GB in this system and i'm not anywhere near maxing it out at my current day job (and for what it's worth, my atom instance that i've had open for about 3 days now is taking up a combined 432mb of memory at this moment, Android Studio is sucking down a whopping 1.5 GB. In my experience the "ram usage" of Electron is blown wildly out of proportion, it's really not that bad to be honest). Atom makes me more productive, so I use Atom, and the memory usage could greatly increase and it wouldn't impact me at all. Some people work differently, they either aren't as fortunate as I am and can't afford the fancy hardware (or can afford it but simply don't want to buy it, which is okay!), or just prefer working in an environment which starts up faster or uses less resources, or anything else. For them there are other editors, other IDEs, other software they can use. None of them are objectively "bad" or wrong, they just prioritise different things.