You're trading off other more qualitative benefits to get that additional RAM: screen quality, battery life, heat, UI/UX "smoothness," etc. Is the added RAM worth that trade-off? I'd argue not for most users, including power users like myself; I have a base-model 15-inch M2 Air for travel, and a beefy Windows+Linux desktop at home that I can SSH/VPN into.
But if you can get more RAM for the same price, how is that not better?