According to the steam hardware survey (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey) current desktop hardware is 8GB of RAM

According to the steam hardware survey (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey) current desktop hardware is 8GB of RAM or less, that's what half of all users have. There are more people on 4GB or less than there are with with more than 16GB. Your machine is the statistical outlier here and shouldn't be catered to at the expense of everyone else.