No not conflating storage with RAM. It’s the same underlying effect. Apple can any day drop an update of an OS which increases the lowest usable line of RAM/sto

No not conflating storage with RAM. It’s the same underlying effect. Apple can any day drop an update of an OS which increases the lowest usable line of RAM/storage above that what they have sold in the past. So as with anything Apple (happy user of their ecosystem though) you are at their mercy.