However, what's wrong with tracking solar noon, so it's near 1200 instead of being near 1300? (if you argue you want more time with daylight after work, why not just set your work hours as 8-16, or even 7-15, instead of manipulating all other people's clocks).
As for the rest of us, for whom sunlight after work is a nice-to-have, Generally speaking, we are employees of companies who set their work hours based on who-knows-what and not based on my desire for entertainment. If I like watching daytime tv, they don't say "and you can have a two hour lunch break".
The people who set clock time are subject to my vote. The pepole who set working hours are not.
It would definitely better if employees had more power than they do now but I think the solution of daylight savings is adequate and I wouldn't want to waste my bargaining power on something when we already have a solution that works well.
My science teacher immediately came back with objections that I didn't understand until a few years later. If you were investigating science, lots of things would be problematic.
Since then, I noticed some interesting things. Lots of pre-modern practices and rituals tracked solar noon. Allowing it to flex meant that there were greater alignment with the solstices and equinoxes. In a magic-capable fantasy world, tracking solar noon is sensible.
I also remember reading things like, how standardized time was a modern invention that created a particular view of the world. And then an article about that debate between Borges and Einstein. We remember Einstein, but not Borges. Borges, in his time, was the pre-eminant philosopher on time. He was influential enough that Einstein did not receive the Nobel Prize for his work on relatively.
Most of the timing isn't formalized to contracts, but is to customary agreements.