How come this egregious failure hasn't gotten more attention, is it such a big nut to crack?

Last time this happened to me, I left the phone with around 70% battery at night and idle, something b0rked overnight and when someone called me first thing in the morning, the phone had 1% battery, was hot as roast chestnuts and immediately turned itself off. It then took several restarts to turn on properly and afterwards it claimed that it had 40% battery and ran for several hours. It's enough to want to buy an iPhone, at least that's reliable.

Have a script check if screen is idle, then check "top" every minute and if 10 consecutive times (presumaby for 10 minutes) the same process is at the top of the list, kill it - we know the main culprits (meegotouchhome, smartsearch, tracker, opera), kill only if one of those is found just to be sure.

I do not know the first thing about scripting and the Harmattan platform, if the status of the Standby Screen is exposed to the scripting layers, if analysing "top" output would work, what property (CPU time, CPU%) would work best, and more, but would something like this be so hard to do?

Heck, the recommended remedy for meegotouchhome going haywire is going to the App Screen and moving an icon (any icon) someplace else - can't an equivalent be done without gestures, like "touching" and then deleting a .desktop file somewhere?