I actually replace 60 watt incandescents with “100 watt equivalent” curly’s if brightness matters. They are actually noticeably brighter than the 60’s, and at least as bright when you first turn them on.
Agreed.
The increasingly pertinent measure is lumens - since watts no longer relate logically to brightness, the 100w equivalent is something like 1500 lumens?
I think currently it’s something like 100 watts = 1500 lumens = 26 watt CFL?
I’m sure there’s some LED equivalent way down around 5-10 watts, but they’re still astoundingly expensive.