Unlike John, I do find the consumption information both interesting, and quite useful - especially so when trying to devise ways to economise on consumption.
I was probably not clear enough, because I definitely do find the consumption information to be both interesting and useful - which is why I collect and analyse it!
What I wrote, in response to John4703's 'boasting'; that "... I can use the app on my phone and see exactly how much gas and electricity I used every hour over the pst year or more." was that my monitoring system can better that, but that I rarely found it useful to have (as I do) 'per minute' consumption data over a period of 5+ years.
As you say, consumption data can be very helpful in helping one to devise ways to economise, but one doesn't usually need more than a few days' data to achieve that. If the 'whole installation' (in my case, 'whole phase') data shows suspicious' usage, then I would usually move on to monitoring of individual final circuits, parts of circuits or, ultimately, individual loads.
As is often said, the great majority of the significant 'economising measures' possible are usually ones that one is aware of, on the basis of knowledge and common sense, without the need to measure/monitor anything, but there can be some 'surprises'. One 'surprise' I recall, early in the days of my monitor, was that, when their batteries start ageing, UPSs (of which I used to have several running) can consume a lot, since they spend nearly all the time keeping the battery charged
Kind Regards, John