Exactly. If you do serious 3D VFX work, 64GB is the norm since years. My whole network of freelancer friends working in that industry have machines with that

Exactly. If you do serious 3D VFX work, 64GB is the norm since years. My whole network of freelancer friends working in that industry have machines with that spec constraint. Or even 128GB if they do effects-heavy stuff, e.g. simulations. That and Apple's surcharge on RAM upgrades (on those models where it's possible at all) is the main reason all of them are other hardware running mostly Windows (or some Linux).