I love the Jetbeams for pocket-carry, etc., because a twisty is almost impossible to accidentally turn on.
I burned down a lot of alkie AAs and a few of those Energizer Li AAs by accidentally turning on a tail clicky and side-switch, but thankfully never had a Li-ion go supernova in my pocket or in my bag after being left on forever.
A reverse-clicky makes it easy to switch modes when the light’s on. A forward-clicky, you have to have it off, then select the mode you want with a momentary press on, then hold it when it’s what you want and/or full-press it to stay on. To switch modes once on, you gotta turn it off and go through all that again.
That’s why I like forward-clickies only for 1-mode tac-lights, strictly flash’n’dash, no annoying modes to accidentally switch into.
Too many modes gets dizzying, and most of the time you have no idea which mode you’re in.
So my overall philosophy is to try to have only 1 mode (ie, wfo) for “special purpose” lights (throwers (C8), flooders (P60 Minimag), mules, P60s) and just use the right tool for the job at hand, and only really tolerate multiple modes for those lights where I’m willing to tolerate an asswise UI to select those different modes.
That’s why I particularly like those Jetbeams for multimodes, because they’re fine with the first twist, and it’s no surprise to just twist again to select the next mode. Even my S2+ with the default UI that comes with the 105D pisses me off with the blink-on-low, because that means that more than a 2-3sec burst of light on low, I gotta hold it well past the damned blink to make sure it doesn’t switch modegroups on me.
The WK50 doesn’t really bug me, because a) there’re no blinky modes, and b) I usually leave it on low anyway which is an almost-moonlight. Anything brighter, and I got my S2+ set on low… with the damned blink.
My 3buk bobofett light almost strangled the AA alkie it has in it, so a few more sessions of ceiling-bounce moonlight and it should be ready for another “dead” AA to burn through.
So yeah, I have near me about a half-dozen lights, including my XP-E2 C8 and my XP-L C8 for nighttime noises out back, and my normally holstered EDC ’502b (NW XP-L + SMO). The right tool for the job…
That’s also why I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all or jack-of-all-trades light. They’ll ALL be deficient in one way or another, depending on the situation.