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If "performant" devices are not widespread then telemetry will reveal that the app is performing poorly for most users. If a new festure uses more memory and sugnificantly increases the crash rate, it will be disabled.

Apps are optimized for the install base, not for the engineer's own hardware.

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What is the point of telemetry if your IDE launching in under 10s is considered the pinnacle of optimization?

That's like 100B+ instructions on a single core of your average superscalar CPU.

I can't wait for maps loading times being measured in percentage of trip time.

If your IDE isn’t launching instantly you have a bad IDE.

I guess so, but:

https://youtu.be/qqUgl6pFx8Q?si=x3CpsW9Aane7GHHV&t=1875

Because you don't want to regress any of the substeps of such a loading progress to turn it back into 10+ seconds of loading.

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