I haven't had any problems like that, but I generally don't leave my screen on. So perhaps I would have this issue, but just never notice it because of how I use the device.
I'm very conscious of energy use, I almost always manually set my laptop to sleep if I'm leaving it idle for a while.
I think it is mostly the massive success. Some people have a belief that anything that is very popular is by definition bad.
https://headstuff.org/topical/love-hate-popular/