Yes beamNG is heavy, if you add more cars it’s bound to become even heavier. Next to my desktop i also have a laptop, it has amazing specs (11th gen i7, 32gb ram, 3070m maxq) yet i don’t even bother to play beamMP with it. CPU just won’t cut it, even with 4 or 5 players.
While knowing that more servers will be added is great and solves a big part of this issue i really like your idea to have low and high count servers so nobody needs to compromise.