I had some ‘nice’ lights on my ‘96 Jetta.
(Until January this year when some jerk took the nose off my car when he ran a red turn arrow.)
People would turn their brights on, then immediately dim down because they had speckles in their eyes.
Then they’d wonder what my lights were.
Well, they were the stock ‘96 brights, just aimed where they were supposed to be.
I used to drive in “public road” ralleys. Most were what was called a “friday nighter”. I remember coming up on one of the cars in the drive and eventually turning off the brights as I got close. When we met at the pizza place afterwards he said that when I first showed up in his rear view mirror he thought it was a commercial airliner landing behind him.
I never really abused it, but it was really fun to be able to see so far down the road.
Ran a red turn arrow? I do that all the time, but “usually” when there are no cars coming.