Honest question: why buy so many RGB lights? Is it for parties? Or it's just impossible to buy a good quality non-RGB light anymore because vendors/retailers push thick margin products?
I only use dim warm lights and dirt cheap regular bulbs work great. They last pretty long in that scenario (depends on the unit but that's also true for LEDs) and consume less energy too.
Sorry for the late reply: I bought LIFX lights because I wanted to have (almost) every bulb in the home remote controlled.
I spent more than I had to because high lumens RGB lights are more expensive then white-hot lights. LIFX lights are 1100 lumens, and I had to put 2 for every 1 non-LED bulb I had to produce the same amount of light.
OK, remote control is a use case. I am thinking of setting it up a different way to keep using regular bulbs but hadn't gotten around to it yet, home is small enough. I like dim lights indoors after dark so lumens are not an issue.
I only use dim warm lights and dirt cheap regular bulbs work great. They last pretty long in that scenario (depends on the unit but that's also true for LEDs) and consume less energy too.