Very relevant, as we didn’t have 2500 lumens in a light to space out the modes by. We didn’t have drivers to have modes, for that matter. On/off. Now we want it all.
5000mAh capacity gives us options we didn’t have then, for sure. How can you say it’s not relevant?
Mode spacing and power of levels is as much about preserving battery life as anything else, the visible light produced is all a perception of your eyes and of course your eyes adjust to available light, how else did we live with 20 lumen incan MagLites all those years?
And for the transmission, give me 3 or 4 speeds over 10 any day. I got tired of shifting 10 speeds a LONG time ago! But seriously, for every driver that is designed, there’s a gazillion ways to arrange the modes. Which do you go with? This light is made by and probably for an end user, a guy that likes lights. He likes the high end, obviously, and tossed in a low mode for the folks that have argued it so highly. I build my own drivers, set up the spacing to suit me, and if I were selling lights I’d still put a driver in it with spacing that I personally like, if someone didn’t like my own choices they could change them or pass it up. You cannot please everyone, you just can’t. At the end of the day, you DO have to accept how the light is made. Your choice whether or not to buy it. Even your choice whether or not to debate it’s merits, but that won’t get the light changed.
As has already been said, a floody light has a lower apparent brightness level based purely on the coverage it provides. I’m sure that had a lot to do with the choice in mode spacing here. For an idea how this works, take the reflector off a preferred light and shine it in mule configuration, bare emitter. That spot being gone changes things a lot! It’s still making the same output as it was before, bit visually it’s nowhere near the same.
Somewhere along the way BLF has become demanding. Where we used to be all about modding a budget light, now everyone seems to think manufacturers are duty bound to answer to our every whim. What happened to modding? Fix it up exactly how you like it, have fun with it, then there’s some pride in knowing you accomplished what the manufacturer couldn’t.