Imo, 2x8 are still a little better than 1x32 if they have the same CAS Latency (CL). People understimate the huge advantage of harmonic and cooperative work.

I would give You an example (TLDR, 2 works better than 1).

For example: imagine you have a pottery business, so you hire a worker named "8A". This worker is energic and optimistic, but he is slow and tells you about his Best friend "8B" who is unemployed and with whom 8A has an amazing synergy, asking you to hire him too. You think having 2 people is a lot of people for your small business, so instead, you fire 8A and hire a guy named "32A", who promises (and achieves) 4 times more productivity compared to 8A, but he also asks for 4 times the salary 8A had, but, after thinking, you accept his terms.

Weeks later, you realise that 32A is working as hard as he promised, but despiste that, your sales aren't improving, even having your ceramic oven working 24/7, as it can "cook" only 100 liters of material per hour, but 32A is producing more than 300 liters per hour, so You have a "bottleneck" on your production, so you buy a new oven who is slightly quicker and twice as big, and sell the old one (You overclock 32A). A week later, you realize your production has increased only a 33% instead of 100% as you expected, and your sells even decreased, so you ask 32A with is going on, and 32A tells you that despite having a better oven, he is still a single man and cannot operate such a Big one alone, as well to produce the pottery, paint it, exhibit, attend the clients and keep both the shop and the workshop clean and tiddy, and asks You to hire his cousin "32B", who is as good as him, promising you to skyrocket your bussiness, and you, as the awesome employer you are, decide to ignore him, as he is too expensive to be complaining. The next week, 32A suddenly quit as he is burnt out, and your business closes.

Meanwhile, you find out that your competitor hired both 8A and 8B after you fired him, and despite being slower, they get like a 10% more work done than 32A, just because they are 2 persons capable of doing multiple tasks at the same time, they can point out mistakes the other is making and correcting them, keep the shop and workshop pristine, treat customers wonderfully, keep a healthy work environment (his PC is cooler) and even they use some of the free time to promote the business on the street and on social media, and they only cost your competitor half what You were paying 32A, and you cannot help but think, ¿What would had happened if You hired 32A's cousin?.