[ …] instead of bullying the rest of the Internet into eyesight-damaging practices.

I'd prefer to avoid bulling others in any case and regardless of the benefits or harms of this or that. Meaning that the missing beginning of the above quoted stance, "Fix your lighting", sounds as bullying to me , as those penetrant insistencies of said dark mode fetishists you seemed to be troubled about (too).

(I use both modes, by the way, depending on my current mood, and — in neither case — do I ever insist, that others have to act likewise.)

That said … I would have appreciate your post, if you hadn't precisely done yourself, what I so disliked from too many of those, about whom you just complained.