Truck lite phase 7 LED headlight
Regarding the artifact in the truck-lites lighting, it really doesn't bother me
This is a good example of the large difference between a headlamp's actual, real performance and its perceived output. The two often don't match, because what we feel like we're seeing isn't what we're actually seeing. The human visual system is a lousy judge of how well it's doing. We humans are just not well equipped to accurately evaluate how well or poorly we can see (or how well a headlamp works). Our subjective impressions tend to be very far out of line with objective, real measurements of how well we can (or can't) see.
There are a lot of headlamps that give adequate-to-good safety performance but are uncomfortable to drive with (such as the '07-up Jeep Wrangler stock headlamp), and there are also a lot of headlamps that give poor safety performance but create the feeling of "good" lighting. The main factor that drives subjective impressions of headlamp performance is foreground light, that is light on the road surface close to the vehicle.
Problem is, foreground light is almost irrelevant; it barely even makes it onto the bottom of the list of factors that determine a headlamp's actual safety performance. Some foreground light is necessary so we can use our peripheral vision to keep track of the lane lines and keep our focus up the road where it should be, but too much foreground light works against us: it draws our gaze downward even if we consciously try to keep looking far ahead, and the bright pool of light causes our pupils to constrict, which destroys our distance vision. All of this while creating the feeling that we've got "good" lights. Keep ramping the foreground light up, and subjective ratings of the headlamps keep getting better even as real safety nosedives. It's not because we're lying to ourselves or fooling ourselves or anything like that, it's because our visual systems just don't work the way it feels like they work.
I guess that you could probably pick up a set of 07-2015 stock wrangler lights and use them in the A-bodies if you wanted.
Yep, you can. They're safe and adequate (and readily available if you look around...plenty of Jeep Wrangler owners swap them out for something they like better). You can also buy aftermarket copies of them, but don't, because they're all junk.
Back to your new LED headlamps:
They do what I wanted and they are plenty bright, sometimes I even feel bad for people who have to look into them when they are approaching me at night...sometimes.
Good headlamps, properly aimed(!) generally do not cause unsafe or uncomfortable amounts of glare to other drivers.
