I do agree its overly bright, and probably wont be fixed till they can adapt the hud glass to be more realistic, tinted, or using the saphire glass like the F-18... however, IRL if its to bright, you cannot see the HUD, you can see in videos some pilots have to put their hand over top of the hud glass to read it. I get that we cant do that, but still if you are going for realism, this is part of realism. Now, having said that and the fact that we cannot do that, I would prefer functional realism ;)