Honestly it's more than enough for many use cases. OSX is quite lean (for a non-minimalist OS) and memory compression saves quite a bit before having to hit swap. Activities such as word processing and typical (i.e not geeky 100+ tabs) surfing around workloads fit very well. My girlfriend has the base 2013 11" (Haswell, 4GB/128GB) as her main machine and it's perfectly snappy. I have an early 2013 base 13" Retina (pre-Haswell, 8GB/256GB), do loads of dev with huge terminal scrollbacks (a real memory eater) and a few throwaway non-GUI VMs (also, shared video memory) and it'll be fine for at least the next four years.
The takeaway is not everyone has the same use case. Also IMHO bloated DOMs and careless coding† are the real pain point.
† It doesn't have to be optimised to the metal but seriously, quite a few people just develop as if we all have ideal Turing machines.
The takeaway is not everyone has the same use case. Also IMHO bloated DOMs and careless coding† are the real pain point.
† It doesn't have to be optimised to the metal but seriously, quite a few people just develop as if we all have ideal Turing machines.