The user will need to realize that, and if they don't like it they will close the app and move to a different provider. But that of course will not happen because no matter how the IT people want everyone else to use their xmpp xfce clients or whatever; Slack will always triumph because it is not just a "damn chat client"
> 20 apps? That's already 6 GB of RAM.
No one runs 20 apps in the foreground, my finance runs gsheets, xero and the erp all of which are webkit. The lenovo's were the cheapest ones I could get with 8gb ddr4 and still no one has complained about slack or our erp written in react not being responsive enough.
I understand that people like to constrain themselves for creative reasons but lets not be cheap with resources.
Sometimes also a music player. All of this relatively comfortably fit in 128 MiB of RAM; it was really comfortable once I moved to 512 a few years later, and I thought that should be enough for the decades ahead.
But then we got electron and turning the web into an operating system on top of an operating system.
Now having a document processor barely fit within 8 GiB is considered acceptable...
Is it regrettable? Idk. Definitely not unique to software though once you look and appliances, cars etc
And keep in mind we're talking about a damn chat client, not some complex video editing or CAD app.