"internet chum" is a good one, it echoes "slop bowl".

Essential is contextually defined by whoever implemented the that part of the front-end basically.

It not a killer feature, granted. I would be willing to bet that the cost of the engineering to develop and support this feature as a default capability for the fleet of all vehicles would be less than the value of energy saved ammortized over the lifetime of all relevant vehicles.

Intuitively appreciating that these "boring fundamentals" are the default bottlenecks is a aign of senior+ swe capability.

If it wasn't sold as the next big buzzword you could easily hire 10 new SDR employees who would sell it that way.