With 16 GB on my old work laptop, I am running Helix editor with a couple of LSPs, no AI whatsoever, and like a few tabs open with documentation and our somewhat memory unoptimized page. I sometimes have to close the tab so as not to crash the system. Memory is really abused these days.

Slack, VS Code, Firefox, Steam, Rocket League, combined with no swap file, and Linux just handing out memory allocations like they're bank loans meant to be paid back eventually and with interest, you get a system that just halts when the memory is finished.

I can see it. From my experience I tend to use way less resources than the usual person and 16 is feeling tight for me and it would be a bear to deal with 8 now. I would like to go to 32 but the recent tech inflation make that impossible. If im like this I think many folk are one step higher.

Rendering the arena might also be helpful.

I'm not saying the game needs 32 GB, am I.

I'm saying I had to close all those other memory hoggers in order to keep playing. With 64 GB, I don't.