I agree with this take. Win95's 4MB minimum/8MB recommended memory requirement and a 20MHz processor is seen as the acceptable place to draw the line but there were graphical desktops on the market before that on systems with 128K of RAM and 8MHz processors. Why aren't we considering Win95's requirements as ridiculously bloated?

Yep, at the time the Amiga crowd was laughing at the bloat. But now its suddenly the gold standard on efficiency? I think a lot of people like to be argumentative because they refuse to understand they are engaging in mere nostalgia and not actually anything factual or logical.