Recommended is 64 Gb RAM and 16 CPU Core. Wow!!! I can already feel the power.

This is the pricing page for Visual Studio: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/?tab=paid-subscriptions

Let's say you're looking for the cheapest option that you can use after Community. The first thing you see is a "Professional standard" subscription, costing $100/month, paid annually (so $1200/year).

That's quite expensive, but it actually includes a whole host of other products, such as $50/month in Azure credits, and testing licenses for other programs such as Windows Server and SQL Server. It turns out these are actually a rename of "MSDN Subscriptions" which were a bundle of Microsoft products for development.

There's nothing in the name "Visual Studio Standard" that implies "This actually includes a whole collection of other content". In fact, it's the exact opposite of what the word Standard means!

Then you have the "Monthly subscription". This is actually just Visual Studio, at $45/month (= $540/year). Again, there's nothing in "monthly" that implies "this is a completely different product with fewer features".

And then finally, only after you scroll past six pages comparing the two options, and the section for volume licensing, you find the option to buy a standalone license for $500, well hidden away from what you thought were all the options you had.

Everything is clearly designed to hide the existence of cheaper options and get you to pay $1200 out of confusion. Pretty scummy for a product where $500 is the baseline price.

You know what pricing page is easier to understand? JetBrains Rider. It's cheaper too! Be sure to take a look at that one.