The causality goes the other way. Technologies that are fast to develop in but comprised of heaps of inefficient layers upon inefficient layers are possible in

The causality goes the other way. Technologies that are fast to develop in but comprised of heaps of inefficient layers upon inefficient layers are possible in the first place because computers are powerful and have oodles of RAM. There’s so little punishment in the marketplace for websites for (ab)using system resources that it is the opportunity cost of failing to do so that dominates.