Yeh I’m not saying it’s not a valid reason, only for this group the absolute max output is more important than sustained output.
I view this in the same way as proprietary cells- if you don’t want a light with built in or special cells, don’t buy it. I like that there is choice, they’re not for me, but I know people I wouldn’t trust with removable cells, a built in battery would be great for this, it’s no different to most electronic devices nowadays.
Programmable UI like Anduril solves a lot of things, you can cap the output to whatever you want. For the “tactical” types, hidden turbo is essentially useless, so they wouldn’t care for it. I miss the UI of the old Fenix/nitecore/eagletax lights with modes separated into head tight and head loose sets.
It’s hard to answer such broad questions, but generally joe public just want high output and non-complicated UI. We are on a flashlight forum, so I’d say most users here do care about the CCT, CRI, tint, optics etc - even if it’s to care as much as going for a low CRI/high CCT so as to get max output.
Lol how bright is ridiculously bright for you? In my opinion we passed into ridiculous territory a few years ago.