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> This attitude is like buying a sports car and never redlining it.

This is a perfect analogy. To stretch it, the majority of sports car owners are developers. The vast majority of your users are not.




We can play this game, sure.

The vast majority of cars on the road today have more than enough horsepower and can handle being redlined.

Most users have enough RAM unless they're running on some absurdly low 4GB< device, which is just nowhere near as common these days.


> Most users have enough RAM unless they're running on some absurdly low 4GB< device, which is just nowhere near as common these days.

Citation needed. My experience with people outside the tech bubble is that they don’t know what RAM is, and will not consider it when purchasing a computer. Most of these people now also live primarily on a phone or tablet too, because their computers are too slow.




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