I never have a problem with a short term looking at someone's layout, at all, it's long periods, and I look at my friends page a lot, thus need it to be non-bright.

Your layout has always been fine, it's large spans of white that really seem to start hurting, hence I have a bookmarklet to kill white backgrounds and similar.

I believe the LJ my style option is paid only, and it then sets a default whereas DW is for everyone, and just changes the view--it also includes format light, which is an added bonus.