I have a small yard and I don't need a uber bright light. I like the bright lights, I have the idea that maybe I could blind somebody who is trying to shoot me.
But I hate these output options where you click it once for a solid beam, another time for a strobe, another time for SOS, etc. At least one of my flashlights is smart enough to remember the setting I had it on last. I do like the mechanical sleeve that lets you focus or widen the beam.
Several years ago I bought a cabinet light from Harbor Freight (<sigh>), designed to install inside my garage cabinet. And IT had the flash cycle where you turned it on with a click, clicked again for a strobe, etc.
Apparently they repurposed the mechanisms sold for flashlights.
I mostly use this very cheap flashlight that comes $20 for 18 of them, with battery:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CTX742M/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1I keep one of those in several rooms in the house, a couple in each car, etc. They're thin, they're not the miniature tanks that some of the more expensive flashlights I have are (and I like the robust feeling of the more expensive flashlights, these feel really cheap by comparison) but for me a flashlight is a commodity item, buy cheap and replace as necessary out of the box. And I don't have to worry about how do I change the beam setting, there's only one. I just have to worry about what color to use.
What I really like with the new flashlights is they're LED. To me that's a 400% improvement over the incandescents, in terms of battery life and smaller form factor.