My vibe from people my age is that for personal and mixed personal/business devices that aren’t particularly “tech-minded” is that they feel they don’t need a full laptop anymore and are going for more portable devices. Meaning iPad.

Generally 8 works for me but I do sometimes end up needing more. At which point I curse my financial situation when I had to purchase my computer which I am otherwise happy with.

Yeah but they can also live with a computer that costs 500$.