your comment made me think that despite the main thrust of my comment, this trajectory is not completely money driven [1]. the incredible journey of the hardware side of technology (cpu speed, memory size, network bandwidth etc) has also played a role in this profligacy because it can cover for a lot of less optimal design

this is something that happens more widely in the use of resources: you build more highways and instead of relieving congestion you get more people commuting

[1] my open source and volunteer-built linux distribution (will not name names) routinely (like almost daily) prompts for GB sized system updates.