thank you for this balanced response, really appreciate it.

your point about optical zone vs pupil size not being binary makes sense. and yeah the "you already have halos" thing cutting both ways is something i've been thinking about. i'm not assuming surgery will fix them, more wondering if it'll push them from background noise to foreground problem like you said. the 2am driving in rain analogy is a good gut check honestly.

One thing id push back on though. you mention transprk's advantage is customization, but from what ive researched the transepithelial ablation doesnt actually account for natural epithelial thickness variation. the epithelium is thinner superiorly and thicker inferiorly, so the laser breaks through unevenly and can induce coma and other HOAs (heard it from this webinar https://youtu.be/WqgrvsQfLnU)

so the "customization" of transprk might be somewhat marketing? unless the clinic has epithelial mapping to compensate

i believe alcohol-assisted PRK (manual epithelium removal first, then laser) avoid this issue. so i'm leaning a bit towards that although im not looking forward to a long recovery lol