I think Moore's Law and related have made programming sloppy. AI is building on that. There was a time where accounting for memory, footprint, stability, and speed mattered. Your point shows we are well passed that aside from certain areas.

Heck, a buddy and I once chatted about the likelihood of k8s running as the control plane in a prototype autonomous vehicle.

top/btop/htop on the mac are always fun to run and see what's up.