The only advantage of eink is when there is no front light. At the SAME screen light levels there is no advantage with Front LED light vs rear LED light.
A shiny screen has the worst effect as the eye unconsciously focuses on the further away reflection.
Well established research.
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From some research papers, the reflected light from the eInk screen is less irritating that looking through the LCD screen at the frontlight.
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There is no repeatable validated reseach that says that for the SAME front LED light vs rear LED light level, especially if brighter than ambient.
The eink is less tiring to read but only if ambient light is good enough to have
front light off, assuming the OLED / LED has a matt screen.
Most non-eink has two flaws:
1) Shiny screen surface (it's much cheaper).
2) Default is far too bright. Auto only works well outdoors. Need manual setting indoors.
Dark mode can make it worse as screen reflections are more obvious (cause headaches) and brightness is easily too high.
Dark mode also often has poorer font hinting. It came back into fashion to save power on OLED.