51% of people are still on 1080p according to the July 2026 steam survey.
replyTrue, but I don't really think that accounts for the increase in memory usage.
replyNo but it's the biggest one that's easy to forget.
replyFeature factory work increases the surface area of every API you touch, and the proliferation of pre-written APIs expands the number of APIs you touch. The combination of the two is not quite O(n²) but the exponent is more than 1, so it's still geometric.