I've never experience blue taxiway lights being confused as white/runway lighting, even in the very common case of uncontrolled airport where they frequently do

I've never experience blue taxiway lights being confused as white/runway lighting, even in the very common case of uncontrolled airport where they frequently do leave taxiway lighting on, and runway lighting off, and use pilot controlled lighting to enable the runway lights on demand. I'd expect at SFO, like any other major airport I have flown into, does have both runway and taxiway lighting enabled as pilots are on final approach. So they do have a reference: the white runway lights versus blue taxiway lights, which on final approach are in the same field of view. And even on the lowest intensity setting, runway lights are brighter than taxiway lights. Something about this particular situation definitely is off. I don't know if there's something operationally different about SFO's lighting. Or if the pilots really were that fatigued, and this is a seriously underestimated factor.