I think there might be more variance in how different individuals eyes work than we usually account for, as well as individual differences in how we process visual information.
It's not something we can easily verify.
At greater extremes we know there are rare tetrachromes who see extra colors that we don't have names for, and we know there are degrees of color blindness, night blindness, and all manner of imperfections of vision, as well as people who's eyes seem to work in the standard way but who have disabilities (or super abilities) in processing the inputs, Da Vinci drew water droplets accurately centuries before we had the ability to record them falling as oscillating spheres.
- but for the most part, we take standard vision tests, get a prescription or a diagnosis, and call it good...
20-20 vision btw became a standard because the guy who made the test used his assistant as the standard, the guy had pretty good vision, he figured.
Myself, I perceive cool tints as brighter, but they seem to make my pupils constrict more, letting in less light, and they seem to make my eyes take longer to recover when going back to partial dark adaptation...
Note that constricting pupils should also make it easier for eyes to focus sharply, as with pinhole cameras.
I see pretty well with the "dimmer" warm and neutral lights, and experience less tunnel vision effect, where a well lit center comes at the cost of a night blind periphery.
If there's Enough light, I don't mind cool tints, but alternating from lighting something near or far well enough to see it clearly, and then going back to a lower light level pretty much requires me to use warm -neutral, or invest in and tie myself to bigger and heavier lights, and commit to using more light to see well.
There's also the aspect of light pollution, cool tints are absolutely more eye catching than warm tints, and while anytime you're shining a light around, you're creating a vivid signal, warm tints don't seem to excite receptors in people's peripheral vision the way that cool tints (with more green to blue) do.
I feel that I make less of a scene with warmer neutral lights, while still seeing what I need to.