Today's systems need 1000x more memory, but are you getting 1000x more functionality? Hardly. Maybe though. There's some pretty sci-fi stuff on my 16GB machine

Today's systems need 1000x more memory, but are you getting 1000x more functionality? Hardly. Maybe though. There's some pretty sci-fi stuff on my 16GB machine. Just photos alone – it stores tens of thousands of high-resolution photos, reads all the text in them, recognises people's faces and objects, and lets me search and browse the entire database instantly just by typing in a single word from someone's t-shirt in a picture I took two decades ago. And it's all completely transparently synchronised across multiple devices and with globally-available cloud storage. I think sometimes people underestimate the pretty amazing capabilities of modern software and hardware. That's not to say that there isn't a lot of waste in many ways, and that many modern apps can be sluggish. But I think this stance is often pretty dismissive.