Like you I hate wasting time like this, and early morning flights which effectively require crawling out of bed at 3 or 4 am and an extra dose of security, taking off, taxiing, sub-par F/J Domestic seats ... that is why much I avoid these noon time flights unless I am spending the previous night in that city.

Flew out of CDG a few months ago, again on this lunch time flight (which I chose instead of the evening one thinking that we would spend the night before in Paris, but plans changed).

When flying out of Europe, unless plans are to spend the previous night in the city when the flight leaves, I will opt to fly out of LHR, at least it does not entail an ungodly early connecting flight.