This is how MacOS presents thermal throttling in the Activity Monitor - there's a visible "kernel_task" process taking up CPU. The downside is of course, that

This is how MacOS presents thermal throttling in the Activity Monitor - there's a visible "kernel_task" process taking up CPU. The downside is of course, that users see this process name chewing up 500%+ of CPU, google "kernel_task cpu", and find the commands to disable the thermal throttling to "fix" the issue! https://eclecticlight.co/2019/02/25/playing-with-fire-dealing-with-slow-hot-macs/ https://eclecticlight.co/2019/02/25/playing-with-fire-dealin...