DEFINITELY YES, PLEASE.

I don't think either of those would hurt anyone if they were added as optional effects to be enabled or disabled. Surely SE could tweak their strength, or even give us options to pick from (light-normal-strong, or some such). Any sort of additional customisation is great, imo, and frankly - getting into ARR the first few times, I was very much taken aback by the raw/stark/burnt-out graphics in general. At least, that's how it felt to me after 1.x... sometimes I still find it very weird, tbh.