Linux Terminal Memory Usage

I use terminals a lot. On most machines, I have anywhere from five to ten of them open across one to four desktops (there are 12 terminals open on two desktops on the machine I&#39;m writing on). Having started using Linux in 1996, I used xterm because it was the baseline. I found rxvt around 1998 and used that for a few years. I&#39;m not sure how it went from there, but about three years ago I was mostly using lxterminal but switched to alacritty because it did most things right and worked in both X11 and Wayland (I&#39;m stuck between those two worlds). However, a little less than a year ago I discovered kitty which was very appealing because it ticked the same boxes as alacritty but also supported pixel-perfect rendering of photos IN THE TERMINAL (using timg - https://github.com/hzeller/timg) ... which is very handy when you&#39;re SSHed to a remote web server. I switched most of my machines to...