I work in video games. My Lead QA recently accosted me regarding the low-spec machine being unusable. (it's an 11th Gen i5, 16GiB Ram and an Intel ARC A750).

He wanted me to get a better machine.

I politely declined indicating that this is the low spec machine, he made a fuss and I said if we can't make it run on that then we should stop making video games.

For context: The weak part for us was the CPU; the ARC A750 is a pretty poor GFX card but it should never be unplayable, it's around RTX 2060-2070 in speed, not unreasonable for a low spec machine.

It's very easy just to say yes to creeping performance demands, even in video games that are historically highly optimised. (obvious caveat here: sometimes things are not well optimised and hugely neglected)