My opinion... I hate it when people go over the 55watt legal limit. You can't adjust your beam pattern to compensate for the brighter light, so even though you're seeing better, it shines in everyone elses eyes that much brighter too. It's not hard to tell when someone has the 85+ watt bulbs on their car.
At first I thought that article was just some guy whining about the new fad. But when I switched back to just the sylvania "cool blue" headlights, I noticed a huge difference. The darker blue coated ones are quite a bit dimmer. Halogens don't produce much blue light... mostly yellow, and when you have a blue coating, it blocks out most other colors except blue. Try shining a green bulb through a red lens... you won't see much if anything at all. Blue and yellow are exact opposites on the color spectrum. Yeah, it looks better, but performance sucks and I'd rather have headlights that shine rather than "look" cool... but other people like them and that's fine by me... I'm sure I have done things with my car that other people don't like
