No amount of whataboutisms will offset the fact that Bitcoin's energy usage is additive on top of everything else. We don't get to choose between vampire device energy use or Bitcoin. We have to deal with both.

The very nature of Bitcoin incentivizes ever-increasing competition to spend more energy on mining. As long as the price continues to rise (as Bitcoin proponents hope) then the incentive to mine continues to rise.

Meanwhile, improving energy standards and improving power conversion technology continue to push energy consumption of vampire consumer devices down.