[thfuran]

If I'm turning on a computer, it's because I want to use it right now. If I'm turning off a computer, it's because I don't need to be using it right now. I guess you do need to make sure shutdown is fast enough that a laptop won't start cooking itself if someone tells it to shut down and then immediately sticks it in a bag, but it seems great more useful in general to optimize for startup time. Providing the happy path of a clean shutdown is useful for that, even if you do still occasionally need to handle power failure recovery.