I like both Reflectors and Zooming Aspherics, as long as the Aspheric has a good usable flood mode along with the spot mode. a good Zoomie is great for trail walking or a head lamp work light with the smooth hotspot-less flood.
I’m not a fan of unusable shelf-queen lights. Sure lights like the Deft-X is great for the “awe” moment to see how far a spot can be thrown, and great for achieving a high KCD number, but in the field its practically useless for anything else except illuminating a small object far in the distance with its throwpencil-beam only locked focus. for trail walking or any other uses its impractical and even unusable.
I have a few modded Zoomies i have that i like and use on walks, camping trips, etc. but they are modded with floody XM-Ls and i end up using the zoom mode most of the time.
There is one light zoomie design i like better for useable throw that still has a good spill, and also has a great wide spotless flood is the lights that have a lens that looks like a modded TIR optic with the emitter on a centeral “post”, as some of the LED Lenser lights, have but the best beam pattern even better than the lensers is the one used in a Defiant XP-G2 Zoomie, particularly this one: New Defiant Zoomie with XP-G2 !