> There really aren't that many people who need to throw a beam for half a kilometre or light up a football stadium with a flashlight.

And for most people, a product that can do that is substantially worse than one that can't. If you want a flashlight to play tag, walk the dog, or wander your house in a power outage, you probably can't use a dive-strength light.

We're finally hitting the point where even modest, internal-battery flashlights can be so powerful that they're painful to look at, and for most people you don't want to go any brighter than that.