Those idle energy usage stats look pretty damned good. If the numbers are correct, they're beating Apple Silicon.
It'd be like blaming Apple for Asahi Linux issues, but with even less of a substance (at least Debian doesn't have to reverse engineer Pop! OS improvements).
System76, for example, ships laptops with custom power management daemons that tune things for you automatically, and provide you with power saving/performance profile buttons in the system tray if you want control.
GNOME ships with a similar power management daemon that handles things automatically, as well.
I'm also in the "I don't want to tweak my computer" camp, and in my experience, modern Linux is much more sane and stable than it was in the XFree86 days.
Genuine question: Does such a machine exist that isn't a heavy lump of plastic with a very stupidly positioned fan intake under the laptop right where your knee would be?
On Notebookcheck's standardized WiFi v1.3 test, the Framework gets 447 minutes while an 8C MBA M2 gets 910 minutes (just over double).
On my most recent trip, I ended up throwing the towel and getting an MBA M2 since my Framework's battery life really wasn't cutting it and for my use cases, MBA gets over double the runtime, making it a lot more suitable for all-day travel days/transcontinental flights, media offloads, etc.