However i am hopeful that AMD will change their ways from a crude brute force "moar power" approach (very high wattages/TDP's for performance gains) to a more finely-tuned, intellegent, and environmentally-friendly approach with higher efficiency (getting more performance per Watt/TDP)
Secondly, TDP does not mean what you think it means. TDP is the maximum power a processor is designed to run at. It only tells you something about peak power performance, not idle power or average power perfomance. Especially not in modern processors that can idle at 5-10W despite having a 95W TDP. Laptop and desktop processors run well below their TDP specification 99% of the time. It's not a useful metric for determining power consumption. At all.
A processor's actual power consumption can easily exceed the TDP. (Actually a processor's power consumption can SIGNIFICANTLY exceed the TDP)
My old bistro laptop was sat at 55C today and 85C two weeks ago, ambient temp today was 16-17C (I.e British Summer) and two weeks ago 30C (not British Summer ;) ).