Do you need the f/2.8 version?

I’m a real stickler for ‘GIVE ME THE BEST!’ rather than ‘give me the practical’ and so I’ve always gravitated towards faster aperture lenses (especially primes 🤤). The real question though is ‘do you need the faster version or is f/4 just fine?’. This is especially true for wide angle lenses where you’re unlikely to be shooting shallow depth of field (even if you were it’s hard to achieve in wide lenses). The reality is that most of us will be using wide lenses at f/8 or higher for landscapes so what’s the point of paying the extra $$ for the extra weight for a feature we’re not likely to use? The obvious exception to this is if you shoot astro photography but even then, in my last Nikon D850 kit I had the 16-35mm f/4 and it did just fine for my astro needs… big way to save money!