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I just got the Kindle 11th generation (after applying trade-in credit/discount, about $65).
The front light is warmer than either Kindle 10th and Paperwhite 10th, but at least on this one, does not get as bright (PW10 is brightest, K10 next, K11 last). Note that PW10 has 5 LEDs, the other two only 4. But they're all pretty evenly lit.
With front light set to 0, K11 seems to have 'whitest' background, followed by PW10, with K10 least white (more like beige). When I turn on Dark mode, the K11 looks much better than the PW10 (with zero front light), there's a lot more contrast. It's also better than my PW11 (which is better than PW10)
In normal mode, with reasonable front light, it's a more subtle difference but I think K11 is a bit better than PW11.
With same theme properties (Bookerly, size: 2, bold: 1, left-align, narrow margin, smallest line spacing) it displays a couple of extra lines of text more than Kindle 10th (but same as PW 10th).
K11 is noticeably faster than the 10th generation devices (which both use Freescale/NXP i.MX6 SoloLite 1 GHz, per Wikipedia -- no info yet on what's in K11). And of course it's smaller and lighter than either, 158g vs 180g (PW10) vs 170g (K10).
(There's no Page Turn Animation feature, in case anyone was wondering)
Add in USB-C and 5GHz WiFi, and I think this becomes my preferred backup reader.
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