It's free to produce, but the cost of running more copied software always increases.
If coupled with hardware, the rising complexity of software makes the hardware more costly to develop and sustain. It may delay the introduction of newer or more valuable hardware features and products.
If this Electron app or container costs me more than it’s worth to me, I don’t run it.
...If they connect the dots.
That just isn't the case nowadays, so you don't know there will be trouble until it occurs at runtime.
I can limit the memory available to ALL the tools I use every day (I only do it for docker and jvm stuff), set priority levels, etc., but it feels very weird for a brand new laptop to hit swap after a few days of uptime.