I thought the same until I noticed a lot of choppiness one day while my Mac was running a bunch of containers, OBS, Krisp, Zoom and Safari windows and saw on ht

I thought the same until I noticed a lot of choppiness one day while my Mac was running a bunch of containers, OBS, Krisp, Zoom and Safari windows and saw on htop that nearly all of my physical memory was reserved and the memory manager was working overtime to prevent swap from being hit. Things have been much better after updating to an M2 with 16GB of RAM.