They have, finally upped the base configuration to 16gb. But objectively, 8gb would / should be totally fine if modern software wasn't so insanely bloated.

I remember reading years ago about how people kept asking microsoft's engineers why Visual Studio hadn't been updated to be a 64 bit native app. They said they didn't need to - if visual studio ever gets anywhere near the 3gb memory limit (or whatever it is) on 32 bit windows apps, they spend the time to optimise the application. As a result, there is / was simply no benefit to have the program running in 64 bit mode. Even for massive projects, it simply doesn't need the larger address space.