Yes, this is true, and I have preached this in the past, but...
They're not treating it as a cache. Most of these apps don't function with less ram.
It's just inefficiencies stacked on inefficiencies. And yeah, they didn't matter a ton at first, because our hardware was advancing fast enough to handle it. But at some point we should really go back and visit a lot of this stuff.
A 2014 computer should have gotten better at all the basic tasks that existed then, not worse.
The Windows 11 start menu being built on React is a good example. Insanity.
Or just a little fun.