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If you get your vision issues corrected (including astigmatism) and see a crisp dot as compared to the starburst, you'll see what I mean.A small smeared dot is unlikely to obstruct a target at realistic non-magnified red dot ranges. And as I said, most folks find that the dot will sharpen when magnified. A smeared dot is no more obstructive to a target than a wide front sight post, and can be dimmed to allow translucency/visual aid.
Another member stated that magnifiers make the dot worse... I find that hard to believe since there's diopter adjustment on magnifiers. It's possible that their dots just didn't play nicely with the magnifier (I've experienced the issue with a Mepro RDS Pro and Juliet 4).
I run dots on most of my modern handguns and have piggybacked RMR and magnified dots. I also have cross dominance, astigmatism, nearsightedness, oscillopsia, and floaters yet I have no issue with blurry dots and obtaining qualifying scores. YMMV.
Why settle for "good enough to hit it" when you can do better with the precision of a 1
MOA dot?
I have astigmatism but it's been corrected for, and I can definitely see a big difference.
But like you said, YMMV