Night driving, headlights and pheasants

Doing a lot of night driving, I've come to the conclusion that most road users (I am of course excluding myself from this since I am an obvisouly exemplary driver) are a danger to life and limb.
This thought came around due to the frequency in which my rear view mirror is filled with ultra high beam xenon lights. These used to be the reserve of the BMW/Audi/Mercedes driver and I can live with that. You pay £50,000 for a car, you deserve to let people in front of you know about it. However, it appears that these headlights are coming as either upgrades or standard equipment on more everyday cars.
 The VW Golf is a top offender, with their drivers cocooned in the middle lane, illuminating anything and everything on both sides of a dual carriageway. It could be that they are being safe in that if they were to drive on the continent they would not need to adjust their headlights at all - saving one thing from the 'to do' list.
Lots of the newer Toyota models have this issue, but surprisingly I don't find it an issue with the Prius (I've got plenty of other issues with that car, but this isn't one of them). The Prius is capable of some truly remarkable motorway speeds - a point that I've never seen mentioned in their ads - and it soon zooms past and glides off in to the night.

I recently had to replace my headlights and since I wanted to waste a morning I chose to do it myself. Knowing what I do now about how the holders are on springs and BOTH sides to be removed, this would be a 10 minute job. However, it may have taken me over an hour, laptop in hand, to solve the mystery of 'Why won't my headlight bracket come off?!?'. Still, in the end it was sorted and I've replaced my bulb with a high intensity one....... yes, I illuminate the ENTIRE road surface (so much so that roadworkers could use my car instead of those floodlights on an articulated arm) and I feel bad driving behind someone on the motorway. But you know what, without those headlights I never would have seen the pheasant that nearly had me scraping feathers out of my wheelarch for a week.

So, to sum up. I hated those lights and now I've joined the club :s