I still remember my first CPU with a heatsink. It seemed like a temporary dumb hack.
I had the same inclination back in the 90s when I upgraded my Cyrix 486 SLC2 50MHz without a heat sink (which seems like a no-no in retrospect) to Cyrix MediaGX 133MHz. The stocker fan was immediately noticeable. I thought I had done something wrong.
Well it kinda was! seeing how power efficient iPhone chips are despite hovering the top of single core benchmarks.