People are obviously adaptable to many different daylight schemes. But far more of society is up and running in the mid-evenings than the early mornings on any given day. Let's put the daylight where it can be the most use to the most people.

Why is "daylight when people are awake" what we need to strive for? Daylight when you wake up is helpful. Darkness when you wake up is harmful. Daylight before you go to bed is harmful. Darkness before you go to bed is helpful. It's way more important when the light is.

It's easy enough to replicate the "wake up in the light" experience in your bedroom with a sunrise alarm clock.

It's not as easy to replicate the sunshine when you want to do an outdoor activity after work...

> It's easy enough to replicate the "wake up in the light" experience in your bedroom

No, it absolutely is not. Light you get from some Walmart alarm clock is the wrong temperature, the wrong CRI, and about 1/1000th of the right intensity.

You can replicate it for the low-to-mid 5 digits: https://www.coelux.com/

That's because people don't actually want a portable sun (say, 10-20k lum D65) in their room. If you do want one, you can buy one for less than $100, and plug it into a $10 timer.

You're buying into their marketing pretty hard...