On the other hand, you can always use a diffuser on a thrower to make it more floody. You can't make a floody light throw more... If you only had one, I'd go with the thrower. Fortunatley, i have more than one though...
In a situation where oyou are checking out objects from a safe position, a thrower would be more useful i would think. I went throught ?Harvey and the thrower was good for spotting the water coming up in the yard/street.
Exactly what I was thinking. In most uses that I use, I need a thrower, every day I have a 4k lumen option and a 500, 000 candela option, and I go for the thrower. I need to see glass on a well lit floor, I need the shadow a thrower casts. If I need to check out for something by bouncing the light off a wall (indirect line of sight) I need a thrower, if I want to light up the inside of a truck from 20 meters away, thrower. Lighting a path to walk around in the dark, thrower so that the extra light doesn't bother anyone. I rarely ever use my flooder so idk, it depends who you are and I despise those who under value throw plus as this quote said, "a thrower can be diffused, a flooder cannot be focused." it's true, in a ceiling bounce both lights do about the same thing, but the only advantage of a flooder is more luminous efficiency, since a shirt or paper will dull the lumens of a spotlight, yet a flooder is already going o be higher lumens for the same size or even smaller light.
If a new thrower comes out with twice the performance of my thrower, and a new flooder twice mine's performance, I will get the thrower first.
I only like in-betweens as focusable lights, and the thing is large hotspots can't through over 250 real life meters because of light distraction.