The world turned millenia ago and will turn millenia later.

The problem statement is of applications using up expensive RAM. Incidentally, expensive RAM is just one of the problems we face in the computing space. Forced obsolescence is another, when running hardware needs to be replaced because software is built for only newer CPUs.

Thankfully the world's turning is not decided by big tech

That statement can be used to justify anything, to the point it is utterly useless.

— Humanity has been on the decline. People are hateful towards each other, striking their fellow man and poisoning the environment. Despots eventually launched nukes which killed everyone but the cockroaches.

— And yet the world still turned.