Comment by hyperman1

We're talking a windows gui application, 20 years past. Compute was not as fast as today, so at the time he speed concern was more relevant.

In a way, the core change in mindset was realizing that computers got fast enough for this architecture to be reasonable. Some of the devs had worked with a machine having 1MB of memory shared by everyone, and snapping out of that is hard. I remember someone on that project lamenting we would be wasting whole kilobytes of memory. Funny even then, but today I recoil from electron, much for the same reason.

Today, you'd be absolutely right.