Also they started a Civil War after that, given the domestic political situation that’s not too far off either.

See https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/24934365

I mean they didn’t go “well, let’s just use 2GB more RAM now”. They looked at the pre-release, and judged that for a good experience you should have 6GB. Chances are that resource consumption of 25.10 hasn’t been very different in practice.