The responses tend to be either "actually regen braking wears tires just as much as using brake rotors" by people who didn't actually read, or "surely manufacturers wouldn't do that, it doesn't match the mental model in my head" by people who've never paid close attention to the power readouts while driving an EV.
Your own response was "actually one manufacturer does have a setting that will avoid the effect if someone sets it, therefore the whole concept must be wrong".
The reason to capture 1W and then spend 1.1W is it keeps you at a consistent speed. That's why manufacturers do it.
Lots of people in these comments who have never actually driven an EV while looking at the energy usage readout.
Personally I've never driven a Porsche but I've driven EVs from Nissan, Tesla, VW, Chevrolet, Kia, and Hyundai and they all do this.
So I am here to inform you that you are just wrong. There's no need to be sorry about educating someone, though, don't apologise next time :-)