You need to appreciate how little RAM and CPU power those cameras have.

As far as cost:

Applying the right tag: 0

Anything else: not 0

Why not include a faster CPU or more RAM? In an industry where people pick one product over the other because of a $10 price difference, you’re never going to convince management to approve the better CPU when a tag solves the problem.

These are hardware companies. They look at software as a nuisance. “fix it in software” is for the downstream.