We just stopped flipping our clocks this year in parts of Canada. There's been a bit of confusion because some automatic stuff changed anyway but overall it's been fine so far.

BC gave up waiting for our southern neighbours this year, and it significantly reduced the number of dead deer on the highway the past few weeks (the death count usually skyrockets for a few weeks during the changeover).

We ended up settling for a permanent gmt-7, where we were previously gmt-8.

Agreed that daylight savings is dumb and should end. That said, time zones are typically in 1 hour offsets because it's a reasonable increment and makes that make between time zones easier. The time we end up in should line up with the existing international time zones instead of making up more shit to replace it.

I want to set my clock once, then ignore it until the battery dies.

I feel the same way, so that's why all our clocks are radio controlled. Even the old analog clock got its mechanism replaced by a radio controlled one.