I wished they would have a separate, properly named process for it. My old MB Pro (late 2015) was throtteling a lot and it took me very long to recognize, as it

I wished they would have a separate, properly named process for it. My old MB Pro (late 2015) was throtteling a lot and it took me very long to recognize, as it was just "kernel task" gobbling up cpu. Getting the machine cleaned out at a service center did help a lot, I wonder, whether redoing the thermal paste on the cpu would have improved it further, but I ended up replacing it with a current model.