To me the problem with solarized dark has always been that my brain keeps telling me that my monitor is broken as it "bleeds backlight". I like the rest of it but whenever I use it I just turn the background to more or almost completely black. So much better.

I guess the same very low contrast is a problem for the light one too. This here did not improve it.

Nowadays I mostly use something else.

I wish there was a theme generator that just took few colors and palletes on input then generated config for a bunch of apps

I took some dark theme (twilight anti-bright from emacs) and just tweaked some values to my liking (making background darker was one), then moved with same theme (manually...) to IntelliJ IDEA and few other apps