> As I write this, with just a handful of browser tabs open, Slack, and a distraction-free writing app (iA Writer—it’s great), I’m consuming just about 11GB on my M2 MacBook Air.

Yeah it does not matter how memory you have, the system is supposed to use as much as it can from it. So this does not mean anything. I’m not saying 8GiB is enough, just that this particular sentence makes no sense.