SOVIS was never the problem, it's literally everything else

Increasing the SOVIS brightness is only a band-aid solution to the visibility problems in the game. The root has always been how incredibly visibly cluttered everything is. The dust, smoke, fog, overdone explosions animations, constant battle confetti, diesel fires everyone, and every bullet impacts explodes like a mini smoke bomb all combine to make visibility absolutely terrible. Not to mention the HDR effects are so bad that turning a flashlight on near a wall on a darker maps turns the rest of the screen almost completely dark.

It's like some art directory decided to turn every visible effect know to massively-overkill and say "this is fine".