It's entirely possible to drive parallel chips with shift registers, but on MCUs with SPI/I2C hardware (or software) it's not as practical since SRAM chips are also manufactured with built-in SPI/I2C hardware.
It's entirely possible to drive parallel chips with shift registers, but on MCUs with SPI/I2C hardware (or software) it's not as practical since SRAM chips are also manufactured with built-in SPI/I2C hardware.