Yea 1000% better when not in moose mode, however, I discovered two things.
1 - the build quality is eh, I was able to get them snapped in and there's no vibrations or anything, but the fit and finish on the mounting could be better. That said the result is still totally worth it and I also can't wait to see how they do do in moose mode when I take the family out camping over the long holiday weekend coming up. IMO one can never have too much visibility.
2 - I should've ordered them with BSM ... My truck was a rona build that ended up without BSM, however, taking off the factory glass I had the indicator there wired up. That leads me to believe my truck should already be wired for it so if I ever get the itch to swap my tailights and donate my non BSM LED tails to the Lonestar in the fleet I just need to enable BSM via AlfaOBD. For now the connector is safely taped up and out of the way inside the mirror for future use.