Also, numbers often don't mean much, or at least not what most consumer think they do. I've seen so many people choosing product A over product B because the "ram" number was bigger and the price was lower.

The situation is that as hardware levels off more and more, with Moore's Law slowly dying, the onus falls much more on software to make up for it. That's why a phone like the Pixel feels much smoother and responsive than other Android phones, which run on the exact same hardware.