[walteweiss]

Does it make sense though?

Any USB drive is so super cheap these days, you can easily get something like 128 Gb for $15. Even if you live in an area where it’s not as easy (e.g. not very developed places), you’re likely to find, say, 32 Gb for less than $10. So I don’t know, maybe someone needs that 4 or 8 Gb limitation, but I believe it’s a non-issue in most cases.

Also, on top of that, we do have a very speedy Internet I’m so many places. Which means if you’re limited here, you can go with the net-installer. If you’re limited on both, more likely it’s a very niche case and you can have a spare large disk to download everything offline.

[prmoustache]

Do we have to waste just for the sake of wasting?

[walteweiss]

Do you mean time and energy for optimising things that make no sense, so you have no time and energy to optimise things that make sense?

[immibis]

Not optimising things that "make no sense" is how we ended up with operating systems needing gigabytes of RAM just to boot, and AAA video games taking over 100GB each. A reasonably efficient system is the sum of reasonably efficient parts, or else you end up in UniformlySlowCode hell.