I've seen power usage drop from 190 to 180W after migrating to scale (complete rack including switch with PoE, etc.). Probably due to better hardware support.I went back to edit my post to remove the part where I said k3s will use 10% (or X%) of your CPU while idle, but couldn’t find where I said that.
Low-end or low power systems, of which there are NAS users, need to be aware of this for SCALE.
In the end no one cares about unused features but overall performance and efficiency. Well now a bunch oft my RAM is just idling around but that's another story :D