warm take #1: if you're not actually in the geographic centre of a timezone; daylight saving is useful at the solstices and godawful at the equinoxes, and the pain for 3-5 days per year is probably worth it
(I would very much not enjoy the 8:25am sunrise in December if permanent DST were introduced; nor would I enjoy 4:48am sunrise in June with permanent standard time; the obvious fix is putting California on UTC-7:30,