Agreed. Sigh... What would have been the cost difference? Like... $2 to put in 1GB more?
RAM is not like a processor that can be ramped up or down. It has to stay powered.
Thus, more RAM means worse battery life.
So what does adding more gain you? On a Mac where you run many programs at once, it does a lot! Putting a lot of RAM in your Macbook is a great idea, even if the battery takes a hit. But in an iPad where you only see one app at a time? Well, you get a longer memory footprint for past apps...things further back in time can still load quickly. But you don't get the ability to run more apps at once the way you would on a Mac.
If you're flying through tons of iPad apps, that might matter. If you're constnatnly flipping back and forth between two, though, you may never see the benefit of that extra RAM.
So what you're asking for is a thing that will only benefit
some of the people
some of the time in
certain situations but will definitely kill battery life for everyone
all of the time.
Not an attractive idea when you say it like that.
iOS device RAM is not going to grow as quickly or as high as Mac RAM will. The benefits of more RAM quickly taper off when it comes to iOS.