A single dropped can on the grass is a small impact. Everyone dropping their litter everywhere, because "a piece of litter doesn't matter" is a large impact.
I can deal with a 1 second delay to run a script. I can deal with a 20 second delay to launch a large program. I resent dealing with hundreds of 1 second lags every day for tasks which didn't used to have any lags ten years ago.
In the same way that recycling was meant to fix the environment (and garbage now sits in warehouses), millions of objects get mass produced and chucked onto the memory heap, in the hope that garbage collection will fix it.
