More of a jealous thing, and, astonishment at how much extra hardware is used to give that headroom.

Over the years, I've run comparatively larger datasets, on significantly less hardware.

edit:

When I switched to SSDs for the first time, to give you a performance example, on some read queries I saw a 1000x to 10000x speed improvement.

This of course was on a read only secondary, long running reporting queries, no one runs queries of that nature on a primary.

SSD were an insane game changer.