Comment by FirmwareBurner

Firstly, 1.2 GB RAM or more is not 'nothing' if you have 8GB of RAM or less, which is still a lot of people these days.

At that scale the difference 500MB to 1GB RAM wasted by your DE could mean a few extra apps or browser tabs you can run before you hit the swap meaning a great usability boost.

Secondly, you haven't answered my question on what Popos does extra to justify the extra resource usage, you only justified the resources waste with the argument that 'RAM is cheap'.