Interestingly, we're quite heavy users of GL (EE) and I'm probably the main person to log into the servers to do upgrades / check on things etc... and I haven't noticed any memory issues, not saying that they don't exist like I know that workers have to be reaped every so often to prevent memory leaks etc... which while isn't great is very very common and is just a delivery decision as a trade off between development time vs a bandaid approach.
Don't you feel this might come of as a bit elitist, Sytse?
He's worked so hard, trust me - that man deserves a beer!