Dev is new to this, inept, so to speak. For some people that knows this's not normal, yes, it's very unbearable to look at.Wtf this game is 7gb? What is going on?
Most people would probably willing to notice once it's past 16gigs for a single asset, and their comp starts paging because their RAM can't gobble it up in one go. That's also assuming they don't put it in their SSD and minding a bit of a waiting time.
That said, from developer perspective, this game is at the state of madness.