I also properly aimed the headlights and they are no more blinding to oncoming drivers as the stock incandescent bulbs were.
That is literally impossible, if you perceived any benefit to using them.
If the bulbs had the exact same beam pattern as the factory bulbs, and the exact same aim, and brightness too, you wouldn't be able to see as well as using the factory bulbs, because the human eye cannot interpret detail in the colder color temperature LED light as well, is overwhelmed by it. You are welcome to do a web search to verify this, and everything else I state below.
So, to any extent that you can see the same with the colder color temp bulbs, let alone better, you are casting more blinding light at others. There is no way around this, unless you are only trying to see 10' in front of the vehicle to not run over ants and aimed them that low.
Literally, if you had the stock headlights, and the only things you changed were the cold color temperature, then you are blinding people more. If you also add more light, with the cold color temperature, and aim them down more, then even if you can't see further, you are still blinding people more, because they still get the effect when they get closer to you (or you get closer to them when following behind), and the housing reflector is not containing the beam pattern correctly.
Once upon a time ago, people drove fine with headlights that weren't as good as the stock incan bulbs in Explorer headlights. What they did when they couldn't see well to drive at night or in snow storms, was slow down or not drive, not blinding everyone else instead and pretending it isn't happening, when it is happening.
Again, there is no possible way to see better with LED retrofit drop in bulbs, without blinding other drivers more. If you are only blinding them a little bit more, then there wasn't even a point to it, when there are brighter incandescent bulbs on the market that preserve the correct beam pattern that the reflector in the headlight enclosure was designed for.
You cannot properly aim a headlight with the wrong bulb in and a colder color temperature that produces more light.
There are plenty of people out there who are taking notice of this trend to use excessive headlights and make excuses. I am not alone by a long shot. There just isn't a good reason for it. You are NOT in that much of a hurry and no matter what amount of light your headlights produce, you are less and less safe, the faster you drive, thinking you can do so because you can see that X amount further ahead by illegally upgrading (really downgrading) your headlights. Think about that for a minute. There's nothing positive about it unless under the illusion that your time is too precious to drive in a way that is safest for everyone, including not blinding them.
Despite brighter and brighter headlights, and better handling and braking vehicles over the years, the number of annual vehicle fatalities on US roads is increasing, and the greatest percentage increase happened at night. That's real lives being lost, not just whether you get to drive a few seconds faster because you have brighter headlights.
