It has been going that way ever since M$S started their bid for world domination with the very early versions of Windows. I am going to show my age now - I was taught (while working for a large airline) to program in languages like PL\I, Fortran, and Cobol, was taught to be very frugal with resources, and this was also the case with the early PC's and C programming. Nowadays it seems to be the case that "memory, processor cycles, and disk space are cheap, so what?" Linux seems to be a bit better, although it does tend to be something of a one trick pony - very good at one task if it is tuned for just that task, but hopeless as a general purpose OS. macOS - maybe, once Apple start innovating again, instead of just stealing from everyone else and throwing lawyers at anyone that objects.
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