I agree, I'd like to see this changes as well. Unfortunately, they do this to warm up the Cat. Converter ASAP to do its job and cut down on emissions.
If you are shocked at what you see at these temps (if this ECU is anything like the 2008's) at -25C and colder the engine surges to 2000rpm and stays there for a while until it warms up!
Until we get this ECU mod what we could do to cut down on wear is use a very good conventional oil at the least, and a semi or full synthetic oil when the temperatures get such to make it idle at 2000rpm.
