>With all the advances in tech, why are our hardware still struggling to keep up with demands of the apps we use? Weird, 8/16 GB of RAM were common configurat

>With all the advances in tech, why are our hardware still struggling to keep up with demands of the apps we use? Weird, 8/16 GB of RAM were common configurations for at least last 10? 15? years. RAM advances very, very slowly in compare to e.g disks, gpus and cpus. There were Optane memories which had way higher amounts of RAM, but they're cancelled as far as I've heard. Personally the only time I'm constrained by memory is when running Windows VM in the background. But if I didn't have 20 apps running in the background (web browsers/games/IDEs/chats/etc) then it wouldn't be a problem, I think. Our computers are doing more and more tasks, we want to have answers faster and without using internet bandwidth, so there's a lot of caches and having stuff in the memory