No, I am not defending Apple here, the only other comparison to make is to Android devices so that's the logical leap.
I am critical of Apple frequently, I just do not believe that 6, 8 or 12GB RAM is needed for a phone at this point. Every device is a compromise and obviously Apple tries to balance what's good for them and what's good for users. For them is obviously money, but they also know that 99.9% of their users couldn't care less about the amount of RAM in a device as long as it runs well, and their devices do run well with even 2GB. You have users here stating that they dislike app refreshes and that for them they happen after 5 seconds of leaving the app, while I don't see usage like that on any of the devices in my household nor those devices I support.
Considering people can and do use iOS devices for video editing and countless other things I am blown away by the folks here that can't manage to use the phone in a basic manner without somehow seeing RAM shortages.
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Funny, because the number of people I support using a 6S don't have this complaint, at all. When I have used them recently I don't see those issues. How many tabs do you have open in Safari?