@alilly Have you ever tried playing a "modern" game or browsing the "modern" web or use a "modern" app (read: web app) or like, even just using a terminal or desktop user interface on a more low end machine?

Software gets less performant quicker than computers get faster.

Websites are bloated and take ages to load on mobile or on slow connections in general (and every app has to be a webapp, so this affects that as well). YouTube has definitely gotten much, much slower in the past few years.

Konsole (KDE terminal) takes around 5 seconds to open on a low end machine with a HDD. Fancy GPU accelerated terminals don't even run because they require hardware that isn't present. I had to resort to using suckless' st terminal on that computer.

And after picking well written software I was able to get work done on that machine, and even play a 3D open world game at 45 FPS with proper configuration.

The gaming industry shits out games with ever increasing CPU, RAM and disk space and speed as well as download speed demands that have only marginally better graphics than games that came out in 2004 or so and run flawlessly on an average laptop (literally, compare a modern title to Half-Life 2 or Portal 2) and you're just supposed to suck it up and buy better hardware every few years.

I simply refuse that we should consume, consume, consume, buy better internet, buy better hardware, spend more money, use more resources, just because software developers can't get their shit together. This is not sustainable.