Maybe the EU can specify the minimum memory that devices have to come with. Everything from your calculator, computer, watch, refrigerator, etc.
If you look at it from an e-waste point of view, it's not a half-bad idea to have minimum standards for the new device in a given market so that it will last a long time before going functionally obsolete and ending up being disposed of.
I've always been a fan of buying as much capability for the soldered-on components as I can. At one point that was just processor and things like the screen (ie don't buy the 800x600 passive-matrix when the 1024x768 active matrix was available) but lately it's transitioned into RAM. Anything under 32GB on a new device is simply not in the cards for me, spending the extra $50 will mean a couple of years of extra service-life out of the laptop. We end up using our devices for the better part of a decade, so to me that actually matters.
This was part of the reason why I stopped even considering Apple several years ago, I had to give up hardware features that I felt were important in order to get other hardware features that I felt were important. Things like an actual physical escape key. And doing away with both USB-A and SD or even MicroSD at the same time was a dealbreaker for the sorts of devices that I use, like digital cameras. You'd have to go back almost fifteen years to find an Apple laptop that has anything close to the combination of features that would have worked.