Great observations about set levels and bulbs.
I created a ‘Wishlist’ suggestion about a week ago to be able to set custom power curves on the switches based on our preferences.
I think the first step is getting the switch into a mode that supports linear ramping vs log ramping or even better a fully custom ramp (percent on vs power distributed), which would help a lot. Then we as a community could build some solutions that would allow us to define the curve based on light bulbs we are using.
Great topic!