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More often than not you can blame the auto industry for this. People want to migrate to LED lights for longevity reasons but the industry has no interest in OEM support for models that have already been produced, especially in the realm of upgrading/mods, so you end up with people dropping in cheap ebay replacements that have been developed without any consideration to the concentration of the beam or the design of the lens. If there was some level of first party support even to just the bare minimum of "here's how you should do it and here's the components to buy" you'd see a lot less of these issues since it's likely not the brightness of the bulb that's the issue but the way the lenses and housing were designed. In addition LED lighting has become so cheap it should be the complete default for every model but instead OEMs have decided to use it as a bargaining chip for higher trim packages.
It's not just the cheap replacements. I had a brand new 2018 Toyota Rav4 and when I first bought it, I would get "flashed" constantly by people thinking my brights were on. They weren't. In fact, I almost never had to use the brights. It had very bright white LED's and at that point those style of headlamps were new and not many vehicles had them.
Now that GM, Ford, and a few others use similar bulbs, the "flashing" has mostly subsided. I think people have gotten used to them. I couldn't blame anyone for being frustrated. They were excessively bright. A lot of new headlights are and I think it's a problem. I'm happy about the better visibility but I don't want to blind the person coming at me in the other lane. That's not a good situation for either of us.
Might be worth getting the aim checked on the lights. They may have come poorly aimed out of the factory and are just pointed too high.
Then again half the problem is the big trucks and SUVs having their lights like 2-3 feet higher off the ground than a sedan does.