I remember the days when MacWrite fit on an 800K floppy and ran in less than 2MB of RAM (and that's with the OS also running in that same RAM).
So MacWrite would have been taking about 50% of available RAM (maybe 4 MB back then).
Meanwhile, in the year 2022, that 330MB of RAM Pages takes up would tally up to ~8% of the RAM even on a Mac with only 4GB installed. So, resource usage has actually dropped a great deal, even as swapping to SSD has gotten exponentially faster.
You might as well be talking about running a Model T on a dirt road next to a Tesla on an interstate highway. The Model T is gasping to hit 35 mph, while the Tesla is barely breaking a sweat at 80.
Like I said before, modern Macs are fast enough and juggle memory so well that the footprint of opening Pages should not be some huge issue. I get wanting to not run bloatware, but if you find yourself griping about running a word processing program on your Mac, you might need to consider a new machine.
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