This sadly, is not a sarcastic post:

One of the big things in FFXI was getting jeunopose/whitegatepose gear, such as m. body on PLD or AF2 on a wide variety of jobs. In addition the Rolanberry Fields/Batallia Downs (depending on your server) bazaars were an important aspect of the endgame to many people.

I can already see this mindset has continued into XIV, on Balmung I regularly see in battle pose, people AFK with subpar gear solely because it's from Garuda and looks cool.

That's why this feature would be fine, but it would HAVE to be optional. It would save a very little on your electric bill I believe since your PC would use a tad less power.

If you find my post sarcastic, please just respect it and try to respond as such. It truly is legit and myself and many of the people I know and used to know did play FFXI for gear to AFK in. It was also important to those of us not interested in it for jeunopose because it kept old timers with the top gear such as defending rings around for longer.