Sure. My assumption is that absent formal time changes, schedules won't change and people will just live with what, for many, is sub-optimal schedules with respect to sunlight.

So then you're back to square one right? Where (apparently) the preference was given to DST (with its downsides), above sub-optimal schedules.

(Edit: Combining both your replies I think that may actually be your point)

My preference is definitely to slant towards evening sunlight, so DST year round. (I actually live somewhere that should really be in the next timezone east anyway.) Though I'm at least somewhat sympathetic to people who don't want kids to be waiting for school buses or otherwise heading to school in pitch darkness in the winter.

> I'm at least somewhat sympathetic to people who don't want kids to be waiting for school buses or otherwise heading to school in pitch darkness in the winter.

That's another problem that needs to be fixed on its own, by moving the school schedules back an hour or two and making older grades start later instead of earlier. There has been enough research showing that the current schedule is horrible for learning.