Not complaining about the price of the RAM but it is about the thing, how much load the Google apps create on system resources. And that is because it always try to track each and every user activity.
It costs far more than 50c to upgrade from 8.0GB to 8.1GB. New motherboards are pricy for laptops.
That doesn't matter. If you can be bothered to count megabytes of RAM, you already have a shortage, with or without Google Drive (or Dropbox, for that matter).