Don’t let the photo fool you, the light on the left is only producing 0.4 lumens. The broken moonlight mode is barely driving the LED enough to turn it on. It’s not a useful output level, and some LEDs flicker badly.
Oh, ok 
That’s too bad, it looked like a useful very low level. Sounds like a very fragile driver.
Yuck, harder to mod than a Zebralight?
I still kind of want an emitter swap in my S1, but I may just never do it. Especially if I get my D25C going here soon.
No. The prying method shown here works fine. Just take the ring and optic out and desolder the LED. I’ve done like 6-7 olights with no issues. Led swaps are fine. The s2 copper I tried was a disaster though…
Edit: my mistake. I’m talking about the s mini, NOT the s1 mini. I have seen one of those.
I dropped my S1 mini a bunch of times and the Moonlight mode began exhibiting the same behaviour as your damaged lights, Bob. Funnily enough it spontaneously fixed itself after a while and the light now functions as normal.