Quoting: Liam Daweou go by averages. [...] Going by the Steam survey, over 50% have 16GB or less RAM.

Well, if 50% have 32GB, that's pretty much your median user. I fully agree (and said so above) that it's silly to design for hardware without an installed basis, but the 32GB RAM I'd give a pass, personally. In the end you don't design games around the slowest PC out there either, and people shouldn't reasonably expect to be able to run the newest visual wonders on a 10 year old potato.

12GB VRAM is still way out there, when only a handful of GPU models have more than 8. In the end, your point still stands. It's pretty ridiculous.