Yeah, I massively simplified the history for the sake of my argument. My monitors at home and at work do not detect ambient light, and some of them are ridicul

Yeah, I massively simplified the history for the sake of my argument. My monitors at home and at work do not detect ambient light, and some of them are ridiculously expensive! They, turned up to the highest brightness or even the default (80%?) are much brighter than older screens. I used to run an older screen and a new one next to each other, and the difference was very notable. Of course they ended up being the same brightness because I changed their settings, but by default, the new one was brighter (because it could).