I've just encountered this too, it certainly feels strange that the platform is demanding far more resources than it actually requires.
In a space and storage restricted context like the plat form this definitely feels like it should be automatically setting the demand threshold. At least for ...

On the Friday facts articles I love the rocket return to top animation, I click it every week.

The rocket loads the animated gifs in on mouseover, but this is already too late to load a big png as the user is already interacting with the GUI.
It would be nice if the rocket was proactively rather ...

Great to see continued Linux / Mac support.

Is there any information about the possibility of the Factorio server binary supporting ARM? Especially with native Apple Silicon support now a thing.
I've personally been keen to run a Factorio server off a free tier Oracle machine for a long time.