This is not a great analogy... Games require your immediate attention so you know why you are killing battery life and accept that fact. Services that run in t

This is not a great analogy... Games require your immediate attention so you know why you are killing battery life and accept that fact. Services that run in the background are invisible and will drain your battery over time. In some cases this is normal required behavior, but if everyone were to have their own background process running your device would become useless very fast. These seemingly draconian policies have to protect likely outcomes as well as edge cases.