[kazinator]

It's because everyone wanted a proprietary chat system, whose single client EXE for Windows chews 400+ megs of RAM.

[dijit]

Realistically, people don't tend to care about how much ram they're using, that's why PWA's are able to take the jobs of native applications, and people are even happy about it.

People only care if there's not enough resources.

[lonelappde]

There's never enough resources.

[bzb3]

Barely anybody cares that the protocol is open, and 400 MB of ram is pretty much nothing in 2020