Are your headlight lenses getting cloudy 2440

I agree with some of what you are saying (particularly the parts about availability and aiming), however I am old enough to have spent a significant portion of my life driving cars with sealed beam headlights, and in my opinion they were not better than the cars I've purchases in recent years that use non-sealed beam units. I think my last new car with sealed beams was a 1983 Mazda 626. These headlights were horrible. The first new car I had with non-sealed beam units was a 1986 Mercury Sable. I far preferred the Sable headlights to the 626 headlights. I can remember many nights cruising around in 60's, 70's and 80's era cars with sealed beams and they just weren't that good. On the other hand, meeting cars with those old style headlights was not the irritant that meeting many of the newer car is. I even tried European after market lights on one car (1974 Jensen Healey) and they were better, but still not as good as more modern headlights - at least as I perceive it. Now maybe I am perceiving things incorrectly, but I don't think so. Are modern headlight a higher wattage? They certainly seem brighter.

Ed