As they say, time is money.
In the age of the rampocalypse, the peasants may not have a choice between the two.. time it is!
Smaller models are also generally faster, so thinking "more" may not matter and may even come out ahead.
Computer science has known the tradeoffs between memory and compute since ages ago. The same could be reflected here.
Smaller models are also generally faster, so thinking "more" may not matter and may even come out ahead.