The ressource consumption is the main motivation for this whole thing. I am really surprised why people just see this as "one argument among others".
This climate change thing is the biggest challenge humanity as a whole is facing at the moment. I get it - it's hard to grasp, because it progresses very slowly and you cannot see the danger and each single weather event could also be random, but the sum of it all is undeniable.
However, that being said:
There are some side effects that PoS brings that are also benefits.
- PoS allows Ethereum to revisit its "monetary policy". Since stakers (other than miners today) are not required to write off their investments, the issuance of new ETH can be much lower and people are still incentivized to participate. Thus staking rewards are like 90% lower than today's block rewards. That - together with the current burning mechanism for base fees - will bring inflation down to something very close to zero or even negative values. Good for all users who hold Ether.
- the slot time in PoS is fixed 12 seconds which is a bit lower than the current average block times. This brings a slight increase in chain throughput. Vitalik Buterin recently pointed out that maybe it could also allow a higher gas limit, because people do not have to plan for a worst case where multiple blocks appear in a short order. Bottom line: expect no wonder, but there will be a small positive effect on throughput and thus gas fees (although gas fees always depend on total usage, so you cannot really compare top before)
- chain security is better against certain kinds of attacks, because stakers can be slashed and lose parts of their stake.
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