Folks will pay for simple and ready immediately, or complicated, multi-user, and rich in a minute. (Plus significant backwards compat.) There is no big need for complicated and ready now. Pulling in the long tail of functionality often desired takes time, and it is mostly IO-bound not CPU bound, which hasn't increased as fast.
I suppose you could put a ton of OS and libraries in a (modern equiv of EEP)ROM for immediate access. The original Macintosh was kinda like that. But things went the other way when disk storage dropped in price a lot faster than chip storage.
Maybe we're back to a point where the former is economically viable, but there would be a lot of historic baggage to overcome.
I suppose you could put a ton of OS and libraries in a (modern equiv of EEP)ROM for immediate access. The original Macintosh was kinda like that. But things went the other way when disk storage dropped in price a lot faster than chip storage.
Maybe we're back to a point where the former is economically viable, but there would be a lot of historic baggage to overcome.