Because we can
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Storage space and computing power are dirt cheap; our task isn’t to “use them efficiently,” it’s to “squander them creatively.”
Forget the Files and the Folders: Let Your Screen Reflect Life, David Gelernter.
Or I could tell you about the time Apple released an unbelievably cool, unbelievably wasteful, 3d-rotating user-switching. The best description I read, and it still reads on the feature page: “Because we can.”