Andrew, it took me awhile but I did finally find some humor in the following:

also, COMPLETELY offtopic but this article  tries to explain why (Adobe's) After Effects eats so much memory, with some explanation about caching in memory and on-disk:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.provideocoalition.com/after-effects-performance-part-9-cold-hard-cache/amp/

The funny part I read was:  " I’d considered posting it on Valentine’s Day as a love story, and like any good love story it involves a hidden secret."