Since they stopped wiring outputs to the dGPU, it's not really that bad. You just rmmod nvidia/nouveau, echo auto >/sys/bus/pci/devices/…/power/control and igno

Since they stopped wiring outputs to the dGPU, it's not really that bad. You just rmmod nvidia/nouveau, echo auto >/sys/bus/pci/devices/…/power/control and ignore the dGPU until you need it. And even then, it's absolutely fine to launch a second X server for the game you need to play without shutting down the first one, or just use bumblebee/primusrun.