Yeah, I hear ya about andouille. It’s like having an operating system to run a toaster. I don’t mind at all having narsim on my original Q8s, because it’s useful enough without having all the other crap getting in the way.
And that’s why I’m gravitating back to my EC50 as an around-the-house light. Simple UI, not even a single blinky.
(And I got an assload of lights here on my table which I could use. Other contenders are my Ewhatever (Wuben 14500 with the braindead UI) and my TM03 if I want to head outside.)
Curious if you caught the Anekim UC20 as a thrower. [review] Anekim UC20 (green) hunting light with remote switch
Green (PCG, to my surprise quite nice!) 1-mode is on Amazon, and they have a 12 modegroup white, both CSM-whatevers for nice tight hotspots.
The white’s UI is like… bistro or bisgotti, the one that the Cometa has. Right now I got my white on 100%-only (group 12), but had it for a while on l/m/h (group 5). Nice to be able to select the modegroup as a set-it-and-forget-it approach to what you want.
It’s about as beefy as a F13, so has plenty of thermal mass.