This energy consumption narrative is garbage.
Really?

You have some home based miners installing separate 200A 3 phase electrical services in their homes for mining. An efficient 6 card 1080ti rig runs at like 1200W, all day every day. Thats a lot of power, and just one example. Not even mentioning ASIC miners, big business (data center) mining, or the resources required to manufacture the all of the required hardware.
Just saying, if you had a coin that doesn't require all of that and is more secure, why wouldn't it be superior?