Almost everyone wants to get rid of the twice annual clock changes but are nearly evenly divided on if DST should be permanent or cease to exist. It's a strange artifact of wanting clock noon to be the midpoint of the workday but also wanting to maximize the hours of daylight after work.
Who wants clock noon to be the midpoint of the workday? The canonical working hours are 9am to 5pm [Parton 1980] whose midpoint is at 1pm. Many people work earlier and/or later, but my impression is that it's pretty unusual to have the midpoint at noon.
(Schools tend to have earlier times. It's not so unusual for a school's workday to have its midpoint at about noon, I think.)
Clock noon already isn't the midpoint of the working day (9-5) for many people. I don't think anyone cares about it being when the sun is at its highest in the sky either. This isn't even something most people know, and it's not even true unless you live on the Greenwich meridian or n*15 degrees east or west. What matters is how early we have to get up in winter vs early we have to go to bed in the summer.
I've always been in favour of keeping the clocks at non-DST all year, but now I have a new proposal: keep them at DST and just hibernate in the winter. Work an hour or two less in the winter when it's miserable.
