Having performance available when you need it is the alternative to waiting. Even a simplistic 2D game loads data, runs routines, and while the person is doing

Having performance available when you need it is the alternative to waiting. Even a simplistic 2D game loads data, runs routines, and while the person is doing that they expect the phone to stay connected to a network, keep up with notifications... you act like Apple is doing something bad. Intel/Chromebooks still are being sold in the USA at Best Buy with the Celeron N4000-series and Pentium-4200 series chips if you prefer to have zero performance overhead on your devices.