the dark background tricks my eyes into adapting for a very low light environment and the white letters just become overly bright in contrast.Is this with low screen brightness applied as well? Because yeah, dark mode with high brightness is a miserable experience, but dark mode + low brightness has been the best setting for me.
Anyway, all of this just shows that having option is important. The nginx PR made correct points about eye strain from my personal experiences, but the meme at the end is the kind of "ew light mode" shit I can't stand either.
The nginx dev still is insufferable for prioritizing his personal use-case and pulling reasons out of his ass to justify it. Adding the tag is just a flag to enable compatibility, and people who don't want dark mode will have their browser/OS configured to not use it, so neither will the error pages for them.