Makes sense. Humans are really bad at perceiving the environmental noise floor. Our brains just tune it out, but it is has a huge impact on your perception of the loudness of fans that you've strapped to your face.
Sounds like a recipe for Heisenbugs.
Somewhat, although I guess the idea is still to keep perf flat and just throttle the cooling.
I can certainly see things like this causing a lot of unintended consequences. "It speeds up when I play loud music" is going to confuse many who don't know about this "feature".
“If you play the music loud, your fps will increase!”