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Risk management and considering possible risks and their likelihoods is generally always viewed as scaremongering by those who don't agree that the risks are worth considering. My intent is to make clear the potential risks, so that people are making a more informed choice than just "my phone might run out of battery early" (which is the most obvious risk, and the least interesting one). I can't make this decision on behalf of others, but I can absolutely highlight potential outcomes they may have failed to consider, even if I expect most of them will then reject those outcomes.

I also think if you offered people a button that extended battery life by 50%, they'd accept a third less performance from their phones in a heartbeat. Certainly I know I use low power mode all the time, even with a full battery, just because performance is the least interesting criteria for my mobile phone usage (as it has no effect whatsoever on my communication apps). That's why I'm so careful to lay out the risks as I view them of opting in to performance over reliability. Yes, they might be slim-to-none risks, but they're avoidable risks, and there's a large set of people who prioritize lowest-risk over highest-performance.