I would agree that you usually need only a fairly dim light. When i am hiking at night, i prefer to hike from dusk in the night, letting my night vision adjust. If there are no clouds in the sky, or some sort of quarter moon or more, on fairly safe terrain, no artificial light will be needed at all.

At least that was the case when i was younger. More and more, I find myself reaching for a light to illuminate dark, shadowy places that didn't pose a problem decades ago....