What feature?
The feature where you allegedly open a can of worms with (I assume the ECO mode you referred to).
Thats not a formal standard.
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We've experienced in a generation (or 2) the magical advent of fiber glass conveying mass data with light instead of electric "pulses" over copper (at least in FCC land and other nations). The carrier who once provided -48 V DC of electricity for devices no longer does so. We forget that fact when considering things.
We're seeing RF technology be able to meet that. The trafficking of data already consumes a great amount of electricity - increasingly so.
I recall @Ansuel's efforts to control "all LEDs". I had a debate with a user nearly identical - thier retort was, it was merely for comfort.
I then mentioned the use case: off-mains power.
I cringe at the idea of using electrical tape.
It's not beautiful, but it always works, immediately, without any learning curve involved - and quite a few LEDs (power, quite often the port link LEDs, ...) aren't software controlled to begin with. Power consumptions of each and every LED (they tend to be rather low power these days, the old rule of thumb of 10 mA no longer applies) becomes an issue for battery operated devices that need to run weeks between (re-)charges, not all that much for grid-like use cases (as the power requirements of SOC, switch and radios dwarf that of the LEDs).
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against adding support for software controlled LEDs, but it's not always possible, nor an easy task to motivate others, if you can't drive development and mainlining yourself - while the tape works right now.
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Layer 0 common sense. Use black tape.
Why would you put any flashing LED device in your sleeping area? Silly.