Win7 was supposed to be usable with 1GiB of RAM, so 32MiB for some low priority background task seems quite reasonable.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-system...

I wouldn't really count the 32 bit version, but either way windows 10 has the exact same requirements as windows 7. Actually 7 was higher by a gigabyte if you wanted XP mode! So if you agree this would have been a bad limit in 2020, then that suggests it also would have been a bad limit in 2010.