This is quintupled by so many of the applications treating memory and CPU utilization as if it was free. Electron is an outstanding example of this: let's just

This is quintupled by so many of the applications treating memory and CPU utilization as if it was free. Electron is an outstanding example of this: let's just ship an interpreter and use javascript for "native" applications. So of course performance frequently sucks. But it's cheap to implement, so there we go. When everything is a webpage, everything incurs the overhead associated with it. Steam takes up ~250 megs. Its webhelper is chewing ~2.5 gigs right now by contrast for me. The bloat is real. I still program against targets with < 1 meg of RAM, but that's fairly uncommon these days professionally.