The truly sad part is that it's still the Department of Defense, only Congress can change that. They're giving it a second name to puff themselves up, or is it to win the Nobel Peace prize when they eventually drop the new name?
In the example there is 8GB installed and usage is normally under 4GB. You said "doesn't mean you won't benefit from more". Unless you use that unused 4GB, installing additional RAM is not very useful.
So, to push the metaphor, if my keyboard and mouse fit fine on the 4GB half of the desk and the other 4GB is enough for the other things I want to do, then 8GB is enough and I won't benefit from more. When 4GB is not enough, then more RAM makes sense.
That doesn't make sense to me. If I have my keyboard and mouse comfortably on half a desk and still have room on the other half for all my little projects, why do I need more desk space?
Sure, not forever obviously. I'm not suggesting that. But why right now when I already have a DDR4 setup that works fine and just needed some more RAM for some applications? It just seems overkill to replace everything now for questionable benefit when I could always buy new kit later.
How does it follow then that one should use nearly all of it at all times? Sometimes I need all the memory, sometimes I don't. Sure, I don't get the benefit all the time. Same as I don't have four passengers in my car at all times.
Or they get off that social media. We'll see.