Perhaps “Always On” is useful to someone, but it still has very little to do with “Now”. And when the bubbles don’t add up to the total current wattage, then that begs the question, where’s the missing wattage?
The Sense software is not at all consistent, but when it is showing an “Other” bubble (and no “Always On” bubble), the bubbles add up to the total. When the “Other” bubble is replaced by the “Always On” bubble, the bubbles never add up to the same number as the total wattage. In this example, the bubbles total 11,701 watts, but the actual total is 8,216:
As you can see, 3,485 watts are lost in the wash, and thus are not tracked anywhere within the app, and of course the “Now” screen is fundamentally inaccurate.