[kuschku]

Not "uncomfortably bright". Those brightnesses are required for, for example, photo editing, and are useful when watching movies or gaming.

Changing contrast in hardware down is always a shitty option.

The solution is to handle this in hardware — artifically increase contrast and destroy image quality for people on shitty systems.

[sp332]

It may be a shitty option but at least you have the option. Unless you want your site to only be legible to photo editors with some money, you need it to have lots of contrast.

[kuschku]

> Unless you want your site to only be legible to photo editors with some money, you need it to have lots of contrast.

Or we simply fix browsers.

Because if it’s a choice between blinding users on most mobile devices, and most higher end desktop computers, or blinding those who have cheap hardware, most developers will choose by who is actually willing to pay.