In a sense it’s kind of awesome the components shortage is forcing hardware and software developers to optimize their shit far more than they otherwise would.
I guess it only works out in the long term if we eventually get back to having normal hardware and we get to run this ultra-optimized system on top of it though. But I think that’s a big IF, and they might be perfectly happy selling no RAM to everyone forever.
The AMD GPU just released, the 4GB RX 9050, was expected to absolutely suck by everyone, worldwide.
But it doesn't; if you have PCIe5 and DDR5. Multiple reviewers have been surprised by this now.
Not that we should normalize a 4GB GPU in 2026.