http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10114
--- Comment #21 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2010-03-18 07:54:43 --- Sure, any measure of waste (power consumption, cpu consumption, ...) would be fine as a metric if it really impacts the user.
'Nuff said. Show some measurable harm to the user and maybe it's worth fixing.