> At the end of the day though I wish I had lights that met 3 conditions: • Give off high CRI, full spectrum, high temperature light • Contain simple electronics controlled by a dimmer rather than wifi-enabled • Gradually turn on and off with the sunrise/sunset Is there anything in the market right now for that?

There are high lumen, high CRI, 5k color temp ‘highbay’ (used for warehouse lighting) fixtures available in the commercial market.

Example, puts out 40-60k lumens at 5k color temp and 90CRI: https://cree.widen.net/s/nmxpvrvfdw/the-edge-high-output-hig...

That fixture is 0-10v dimming capable, you could pair it with a photocell, room controller, and dimmer from a commercial lighting controls line to handle the automatic raise/lower and manual dimming.

These are ‘available’ in a sense, if you can find an electrical distributor to open an account you can buy these, but it isn’t as easy as just going to Home Depot.

The downside is, it’s probably $400-500 for the Cree highbay, and another $500 for a photocell, room controller, and dimmer. Then you need to wire it all up, and program the controls.