The duck curve is a big barrier to the transition to renewables, flattening it is a good long term goal.
People want to use their ovens before meals, strangely enough... You cannot really ask them to use them at another time on a regular basis. Likewise for kettles, etc. for breakfast and when getting home in the evening.
Washing machines are different. It's perfectly possible to offer night or weekend electricity prices to nudge people as other countries have done for decades.
Any solutions to our energy problems have to deliver electricity when people want to use electricity. Soft rationing means the 'future' does not work.
For me personally, the point has only been to get paid something, even if not much, to offset the current ridiculous energy prices, otherwise I would obviously not have bothered...
from https://octopus.energy/blog/saving-sessions-faqs/ :
"There's no need to get involved if you feel Saving Sessions isn’t right for you. But this is quite different to just saving energy all the time in everyday life – it’s about shifting your electricity-intensive activities to different times of day"