On the other hand, I bought into the hype that the 8GB was fine for pretty much everyone. I had a M1 Air with 8GB of RAM and ended up having to buy a M1 Air wi

On the other hand, I bought into the hype that the 8GB was fine for pretty much everyone. I had a M1 Air with 8GB of RAM and ended up having to buy a M1 Air with 16GB of RAM since the swapping during my normal workflow made the machine unusably slow. Dozen Chrome tabs, Angular 2+ application being served, Webstorm, GUI Git client, Messages, and a few other little things.