Your mom and sister are not using it for lightroom and photoshop, which is my use case. It's fine for light-medium duty, just not what I need in a laptop. I need threads and I need ram.
This is what I'm window shopping right now. I'm not a laptop fan mostly due to terrible options for expansion and configurability. However, I really could use one for photos shoots and particularly as I start to explore astrophotography. So,
https://frame.work/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040...
Chromebooks are marketed heavily to school districts and industries that need bulk, easily replaceable, inexpensive devices. They overlap with low-end consumer spaces because people using them at school and work know them and understand their functions. They're designed to really only have a...
Oh yeah, no judgement on what you got at all. I fully understand the "this was the option I chose at the time because reasons". Done it many times myself. :)
Windows 10 /11 sucks on 4gb of ram, sadly. You really need 8 minimum and 16 ideally.
If you'd like to look at DIY upgrading it, Here's a 16gb kit that will work in your laptop, is decent, AND inexpensive. Swapping it is a few screws and the back plate, then easy pop-out/pop-in, 5-10 minutes...