My old Nexus 7 (2012) had a similar feature called PRISM/SmartDimmer which was equally annoying, though it could be disabled via sysfs. Many people did not noti

My old Nexus 7 (2012) had a similar feature called PRISM/SmartDimmer which was equally annoying, though it could be disabled via sysfs. Many people did not notice it though, so maybe it was a net win...