I like the status quo. Permanent standard time means that part of the year the sun comes up so early that most people are still asleep. Where I live, that would be around 4 a.m. in the summer. Permanent DST means that the sun comes up very late in the mid-winter, in some places close to 9 a.m. when kids are going off to school. They tried permanent DST for a while in the 70s in order to save energy, and it was a flop. I had to catch the bus for school at 7:10 a.m. and I made my walk to the bus stop by starlight.
The status quo isn’t perfect, but it does shift daylight hours to the parts of the day when they can be most useful to most people.
“I made my walk to the bus stop by starlight”
You brought up the reason people argue for permanent daylight savings time.
Fewer crimes are committed in the morning. Therefore if it is dark in the morning it has a minimal effect on crime.
However during standard time it starts getting dark in the 4 pm hour. More crime is committed in the late afternoon, evening and nighttime.
The reasoning is that if there is more light later in the afternoon then there is a narrower window of opportunity to do mischief.
Of course if people didn’t commit crimes this would not be an issue.