Who the hell would set 4Gb swap for a 32Gb RAM machine in 2025?

A guy with a decade old 64Gb SSD as the only drive in the system?

> and makes everything slow while doing it

It was so when the OS was on a HDD. Nowadays it's a PCIe device with 1 million IOPS.

And five years ago fans of some fruit company run around singing praises on how good their brand new laptops worked with a mere 8Gb of RAM.