You could reverse the last sentence to "freed disk space reduces the need to clean the hd".
And I don't even mean physical limitation as much as the compulsion to manually clean ballooning cache dirs once in a while.
It's a tradeoff between wasting a little time everyday vs. wasting equally little time every year or so but also having the mental load of cleaning up plus maybe existential dread vs. spending more money to never have either problem. I do understand the last one isn't an option for everyone, but if it is, it's absolutely worth it.