> Do the anti-DST people understand what they're advocating for?

They do, which is why only 45 countries observe DST.

25 observe it partially.

And the rest, roughly ~125 countries do not.

Historically, ~140 countries did.

To put this into perspective, only about 1.2B people out of 8.3B observe it today. Which puts you into a very small <15% minority.

Appealing to population is a stupid argument. DST as a policy is designed for places at higher latitudes, and the the majority of the planet do not live at higher latitudes. DST exists to maintain a more consistent time of sunrise across seasons.

DST is moronic in any part of the world close to the equator. There is not enough seasonal adjustment in the time of sunrise to justify adjusting the clocks. And in places of the world such as the middle east, they have an active policy of avoiding the sun and a policy of DST (which maximizes sunlight while awake) is antithetical to how society functions.