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For a brand new phone. If everyone around you is using a phone that's less than 2 years old and purchased brand new, then you're living in a bubble.

Same issue with web apps that run just great on the developer's 9 month old iMac over a symmetrical 100/100 connection vs the typical family's 5 year old chromebook (or the 8 year old Dell at the office) and 10/768 that's also supporting a Netflix stream.

That hopefully motivates at least some developers not to ship 500mb apps.

Thankfully even the shitty low-end phones I see these days have 8GB ROM

Of which 7GB is taken up by the OS and system apps.

I was kinda exaggerating, then I checked my phone and there's actually 15GB used by the OS.