But, again, you cannot consider flawed human perception to be the ground truth! Photonically, the red eye is the ground truth. If you were looking through the viewfinder, you should also have seen the red eye effect, if only for an instant. If you didn't, it's only because your eyes were too slow. Or perhaps you weren't looking through the viewfinder at all and therefore not in a position to see the retroreflection, in which case you might as well have been facing the other way for all that counts.
Or consider taking a photo from a moving vehicle. You can't resolve your blind spots with saccades because the scene moves. Your subjective impression is probably that only the thing you're tracking is crisp, and everything else is a vague, blurry mess. Is that what the camera should capture, irrespective of shutter speed?
I think it's clear that culturally we expect photographs to be an indexical trace of genuine photons, not a replication of subjective experience. That is the value they provide over an "artist's impression".