I agree that 8 GB of RAM seems weird these days. However, I bought an MB Air in 2022 with only 8 GB, and I can shed some light. My thought process was that I'm

I agree that 8 GB of RAM seems weird these days. However, I bought an MB Air in 2022 with only 8 GB, and I can shed some light. My thought process was that I'm going to use this machine for just a very limited number of things and this would not become my daily driver. Therefore, I saw myself as buying merely a "smartphone with a larger screen," which is a category where I typically just buy the least expensive and lightest weight choice. The 8 GB has proven to be entirely adequate for my use case.