Fully agree. I used to drive a motorcycle on highways at night, on high beam it was around 1200 to 1500 lumen with a 65 watt H4 bulb. Used Hella or Cibie headlamps with a really good well cut lens for a very good beam. If that is enough for 60 mph, the lights that put out several times as much light for a bicyclist really make no sense.

For a couple decades I drove a pickup truck with motorcycle H4 headlamps instead of the sealed beam lights that came on those trucks. They were a fantastic upgrade.

On my bicycle I find that just using a constant on dyno powered headlamp, either a B&M Luxos U or a B&M IQ-XS seems to make the on coming traffic more careful, and these certainly are not enough to blind anyone in daytime.