I just learned that there are programs to control the brightness of external monitors just like you can adjust your laptop's integrated display.
On windows, the most well known one is monitorian (FOSS), on linux you can (on Gnome) even use shell-extensions to have a brightness slider just like you do for the integrated display.
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I've been using Twinkle Tray for some time and found it pretty useful.
I've burned my eyes for so long while gaming in a dark room, wish I would've found out about this sooner.