Most of my monitors are way too bright at 0% at night. On my 4K I even need to work at 0% during the day and reduce contrast at night (which messes up colour depth).
And yeah the OSD controls are horrible.
I still work on a real VT520 CRT terminal sometimes and it amazes me how it can go from super bright to hardly readable in pitch dark. And has amazingly handy analog brightness/contrast knobs. Not all innovation is progress.