I thought the same at first, then played with the auto brightness slider when I had it in dark mode. Set it very high while outside on a bright sunny day and then it auto dims to full dark at night. For basic commuting where I do not need the Nav it works well, navigating on a trip not so much. Maybe if they keep improving the Nav with more directions on the drivers display it will help some. Some sort of setting or slider to get a middle gray background or anything not full dark or full white would be great. The full white bright is just too much for me most of the time and we get over 300 sunny days here.Not sure how it is possible to have it dark all the time.
Probably the first thing I tried to do was force dark mode, but if I back out of the garage during the middle of the day it will start in Dark and it is impossible to see anything on it outside until it switches to Light which is always delayed.
Maybe it's the matte screen protector we have?