I have never noticed any difference in me when we have a change. Maybe it’s because I have always had irregular sleep habits. I like DST because I like having the hours of sunlight later in the day when I can take advantage of them, and not earlier in the morning when I am still asleep.
I always have problems for a week or more (some years) when the change is made. Twice a year. I wish we would stay on one of the other.
Personally, like you, I prefer Daylight Savings Time hours to Standard Time, and wish we could just stay on that all year long.
Later sunlight is good across most of the US. So we should just stick to that and not fiddle with the back and forth.
If ever there were a demonstration of bureaucratic inertia,
that we didn’t settle on this decades ago is ample proof.
Pick a time and stick with it year round.
The change twice per year doesn’t bother me much-I alternately worked 1st and 2nd shifts for a number of years-but I’ve always disliked the earlier darkness in Winter, especially during the week because of work-also because I’m an early riser and an outdoor person...
I’m all for daylight savings time being kept all year-in Winter, that extra hour of daylight is welcome-especially for work-and I love long Summer evenings for outdoor activities, too