define crappy?
You can hardly read by them. It will light the room well enough so you don’t run into things but try to shoot a photo under “daylight” LED light bulbs and you won’t be able to view the pic well at all. Take the same picture under even shaded daylight, it is like night and day comparisons.
I knew the LED light was not pleasing light, but until I took photos under it, I did not know why.
I have 6 so called 60W (by lumens) (9W power consumption) LED light bulbs over my kitchen table. Compared to the incandescent lamps that were previously in the fixture we have <1/4 the light level (not measured with light meter). And the glare is much worse.
Interesting. I have been slow to adopt the LED devices at home; I bought large numbers of tungsten bulbs before they were banned. The LED bulbs I have installed are all marked as having a “2700K” color temperature. This is heavily weighted towared green/yellow. I find the “cool white” 5000K color temperature to be too blue and harsh. My experience with the brightness has been opposite yours; in general a “60W Replacement” LED bulb seems brighter to me than an actual 60W tungsten bulb. Curly bulbs definitely seemed dimmer, to me.