The vast majority of people do not care about memory efficiency on the levels we're talking about. I've never met a non-technical person who has cared. And out of the technical people that I know (which represent less than 5% of the population), no more than half of them have complained about the memory usage of an electron app.
Or, they care but they lack the vocabulary to express what they care about.
You can get a new laptop to run software A or competing software B.
You can pay $1000 for the laptop with 4GB of RAM, and software A either can't run on that or will act like pulling teeth, so that software requires you to upgrade to 16GB of RAM which will put you back another $2000.
Or you can run software B which will hum along perfectly smoothly on the original $1000 laptop.
(All of that of course simplifying right past "everyone runs every app 24/7 with five trillion browser tabs open")
Are you honestly suggesting that the end user doesn't care about having to throw exponentially more money at stuffing RAM into their PC just to make the game all their friends are playing online function?
> Or, they care but they lack the vocabulary to express what they care about.
That's speculative to the point of being conspiratorial.
> Are you honestly suggesting that the end user doesn't care about having to throw exponentially more money at stuffing RAM into their PC just to make the game all their friends are playing online function?
I'm extremely clearly not suggesting that. Don't make up things and pretend that other people said them. Engage honestly or not at all.
What if they want memory efficiency