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You may be on the right track with the ram, once the systems has to start swapping it out to disk things get orders of magnitude slower. One of the things I like about pixinsight is that it keeps track of system resources it has available and schedules its work to avoid hitting bottlenecks. I don't have DSS to compare, so can't comment on that one.
Are you able to check the memory usage during stacking in the task manager? I mainly use mac and linux but windows refers to swap space as the page file, if there is any used during stacking it will cause a big bottleneck.
According to Google in performance monitor on windows you can track it (add counter -> page file -> usage), if none is being used then more ram may not make a difference. Another potential improvement is swapping to pci-e attached drives (many m.2 and all 2.5in SSD drives aren't). Using nvme, or pic-e (there's heaps of options now) will provide a significant I/O improvement even over SSDs with slower interfaces.
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