At least this version of "night" is much more realistic. With the post lighting enabled it is not that easy to get oriented with the drones, even with the icon flags enabled. Night fighting would be a nightmare and interesting, if exhaust flame glare was modeled and icons were turned off.
You could have an AI arena where the contest was to up as a night fighter and shoot down the most inbound raiders in the dark. No icons just exhaust glare. Maybe an advanced version with primitive radar.