I'd blame bloatware rather than the OS. As globular-toast's comment points out, using an SSD for swap could cause significant wear, i.e. shortening of the devic

I'd blame bloatware rather than the OS. As globular-toast's comment points out, using an SSD for swap could cause significant wear, i.e. shortening of the device's usable lifetime. If applications made more efficient use of memory, the OS wouldn't need to terminate processes.