Shouldn't it just downregulate brightness and then slowly crank it back up? I could not stand anything below full brightness. Giving up on the cool hacker look

Shouldn't it just downregulate brightness and then slowly crank it back up? I could not stand anything below full brightness. Giving up on the cool hacker look and changing my Emacs and Terminal to black on white is one of the best things I've done. My desktop background is pure white too.