In isolation, maybe not, but I don't get paid to have chat clients or screen share apps run, I get paid to add features or remove bugs from the bazillions of microservices and associated spa, which under ideal conditions requires running them locally. Every byte consumed by something useless is not a tradeoff I endorse.

That "ram is cheap and plentiful" is also seriously not true for Mac laptops, which both caps how much one can expand them and also charges unreasonable rates for the additions they do allow