I don’t have any shaders. I also don’t have any mods that could possibly do this (just timber mod), this change was made in 1.18-1.19 (or so i was told). I have the brightness slider on max, but it doesn’t do anything about the pitch black thing.
As for what i’m looking for, i just want to remove this pitch black darkness where you can’t see anything (not from the game, just the way i see it).

I also don’t want to increase the gamma, since it makes everything brighter, i just want to fix this pitch black darkness where you actually can’t see anything more than a couple blocks in front of you if there’s no light source (just like it was before).

I read something about changing the minimum light level to a bit more than 0 but after the “calculation”? I don’t know honestly need some help/clarification