Yeah that's fair. My RAM usage is through the roof lately, but it pretty clearly happened when I switched to a multimonitor setup. I'm much more likely to have a lot of stuff in the background now because it's easier to have a lot open at the same time in the practical sense.

But I was lucky enough to grab a 64GB kit before prices went into the sky. Believe it or not, I was regularly up against the limit when I had 32GB.