Johnny B Good wrote:

It's the home computer equivalent of Microsoft's Cockamaimee Pagefile
default settings in windows designed to accelerate "System Senility"
by aggravating the effects of file system fragmentation due to normal
file writing activities further aggravated by the endless file churn
from the never ending stream of windows updates and fixes.

Pagefiles were a necessary evil when you could only afford half as much
RAM as you needed, now I just buy twice the RAM I think I'll need and
run without a pagefile.

Outside of datacentres (and gaming?) demand for "MORE POWER!" seems to
have died out a few years before Moore's Law hits the buffers (Intel are
giving up on tick-tock).