I'm not sure I agree with that in the slightest, given the way the tech industry has gone with software sizes/complexity/etc.

I fundamentally use computers to do the same things I did in the late 90s - IRC, chat, some web browsing, development, etc. And due to things like Electron, a quad or hex core system with 4GB RAM struggles with a lot of these things now.

The result of that is an awful lot of ewaste, as machines that were perfectly able to do things when they were released lose that ability as the complexity of software goes up - for not that many new features, really. AIM back in the 90s fit on a floppy, Element is a bloated pig that mostly does the same thing - chat with people. At least there are some native clients.

I think we should require developers to use gutless wonders once a week, instead of "Well, it works fine on my 16 core Xeon with 48GB RAM!"

The weight of Electron apps is an interesting contrast with any thread about garbage collection/PL theory, where by far the common opinion is that GC languages are the most performant language, only way to go and the only reason to do anything else is that you're a cowboy who hates memory safety.