CT, HRT, and general CQB work. Outside the house the ability to adjust brightness was required but a larger dot was not.
That is why the folks that perform those missions asked for smaller dots. Impressive as knocking holes in paper on a timer or shooting jackrabbits can be....
The facts are other folks with a requirement for very precise and effective target engagements who pioneered red dot sights ask for, received, and use smaller dots than is generally found in the civvy world.
You can be mad about and justify the larger dots all day long but that does not change that fact.