I thing what Democrats are conserving in simply the status quo of society.
They want politics to be about electing a party with votes, districts
They want banks to organize money.
They want corporations to employ people.
They want schools to be about preparing kids for work and freeing adults to do labor.
They want the global appearance of their finances look good. (GDP)
They want to be against war and violence except if it is in their own benefit.
They want to not care about existential issues like climate change.
I am not saying here that all of the above are overdue change but more and more appears fundamentally broken and there is no ambition for real change.
You can accurately preach best usecases all you want it falls flat before peopled experience.
I always shutdown my desktop. So did i with all my previous desktops.
Ive always shut down every windows/linux laptop i ever had.
I shut down my android tablet after use.
I owned and mainly used a MacBook pro for 5 years, i never shut it down, i never shutdown my iPhone. It was also ironically the best windows laptop i had owned at that point (in dual boot) and i always shut down when i worked in Windows, just never in macos
Apple did not tell me to do this, it is not difficult to shutdown a mac, no one told me to change what i am used to. It just somehow made the most sense so thats how i used it. And i reverted naturally when i ent back to non apple desktops. I cant explain it better then that.
This does not excuse having a power button on the bottom, thats just ridiculous. Just a hint that what your saying about downsides is irrelevant to how people realistically use it.