What's with all the sealed beam hate?

My '65 Valiant has my first Cibie's. Prior to that mostly Hella and some Bosch with some no-names thrown in. Haven't got the Cibie's dialed in yet as with the trans out there hasn't been much point.

I have yet to see a sealed beam that could compare to a good lens/reflector + H4 bulb, not even the halogen sealed beams. For years I ran a set of $20/each (in 1982 dollars) JCW H4 lens/reflectors made in Poland. They are still the high water mark that I compare all others to, and that was with legal 55/65W bulbs in them. None of the Hellas have been as good, but in their defense all of them have been the large rectangular light and I don't think that it was possible in the days that those were designed to equal the light pattern from a circular reflector. I've had two sets of Bosch's. One set was the small round HL's for a quad HL system. They came really close to equaling those Polish HL's. the other set of Bosch's were an extremely rare set for the tiny, tiny rectangular HL's that GM messed with for a couple of years in the early 90's. Those, in comparison to anything else, weren't all that great but they were light-years better than the sealed beams that they replaced and were hugely welcomed.

BTW, none of these lights have had relays driving them. All were on the OE wiring. I messed about with relays on one of those such equipped vehicles, but that OE does their HL wiring in a very strange way and while it worked with relays, it didn't work right. I've since uncovered how they do their wiring, but it hasn't yet been worth the trouble as I don't drive that truck at night very often. currently the Valiant is on the OE wiring, but as soon as I decide to pull the trigger on a relay/fuse base it will be getting relays as I expect to DD this car and it will see night driving fairly often.