@coolboymew reminder that people complain about RAM usage without considering that space-time tradeoff, how cheap RAM actually is. Using RAM is a good thing and more programs should aggressively cache stuff in memory, and not be constantly trying to shrink it's memory usage through freeing.

If anything, the complaint about Chrome is that it aggressively caches stuff to disk, even when you have 64GB of RAM. It's constantly beating on SSDs, causing them to lose electrons.