Man, talk about projection. I explain what happens when you have infrastructure that can handle specific loads, and you go "it doesn't match my world view, and you state that some of them mod the timers, therefore it's bad faith distraction".
It's literally the opposite. It's the real life test of existing infrastructure, that led to wide reaching outcomes, including our regulation (what you call "code") having been changed to adopt to this reality. To claim that all this is "bad faith" because as I noted some people pushed existing infrastructure beyond what it could do demonstrating the problem... is indeed a bad faith distraction.
And if you were right, isn't it really weird how literally no one is doing what you're suggesting, especially in places like where I live, where Greens are basically #2 party of the municipality and Green policies are in overdrive and have been for at least two decades? Could it be that they're all running into the same obvious problems that we ran into?
Hint: electrical systems were used as intended. They pulled 2kW as system was supposed to do. What they didn't realize is that like a lot of residential, it's meant for 2kW in short bursts. It's why it didn't trip any breakers. It's just that when those things got built many decades ago, no one considered that there would be many people who would use those things more than once-twice a day for an hour or a bit longer than that max.