Just a few random thoughts run through the blender…
To be honest/blunt, I’m not quite sure what’s the point of gifting or even encouraging The Muggle to buy an Überlight. Whether it’s dumbing it down, hobbling it, lobotomising it, affixing training-wheels to it, whatever, if someone can’t handle it, what’s the point?
It’s like gifting someone a Ferrari but installing a “teen mode” speed-governor to it.
The SC31 and even that 500lm Xiomi “lipstick” light were designed to suit that purpose, and at least the former was “improved” by making it brighter. :person_facepalming:
Advertising a light that can set small children on fire from 50’ away sounds tres kewl, but it is practical? Oh, it’s fun (well, except for the small children), but is it the best thing for The Muggle?
I got a DC7 which is very Q8ish, but for the most part only has ramping and a coupla shortcuts. Works fine for probably 95% of the population. Even if it had candle-mode and LOL mode and 0-0-0-destruct-0 mode and all these other fun options which you could only enable first by bapping the sideswitch with “iddqd” in Morse code, great. But that’s really only for The Enthusiast, no? The plumber who just wants to see what’s in the dark scary cellar probably doesn’t care about the blinkies.
Simplifying the UI, while making hurt-yourself modes harder to get to, great. But even defaulting to “special”-mode will absolutely result in returns and nasty reviews. Guaranteed.
Case in point. I recently got a food thermometer (B019W2CGM6). The “cap” which slides onto the probe can be stuck onto the opposite end to extend its “reach” into a hot oven. Some lackbrain 1-starred it and commented, “Uhh, that’s not 13in, more like 13mm!”. Wait, an exact quote is best…
This is 13MM NOT 13 INCH!! Only reason I bought this one was for the long reach. Returning. P!SSED
Retard.
This is what you’d be dealing with. When people return lights because they “don’t work”, and can’t be bothered to take out the protective disc on the end of the cell, even though it’s triple-wrapped in glow-tape saying so, wellp, that’s the result.
So… yeah, maybe simplify the most-used functions if need be, and make it harder to get into hurt-yourself modes, and that should be enough.