I'm now part of the @droidian project.
Worked on this for properly working auto brightness on phones. But if merged, should be a progress on laptops too.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge_requests/374
@gnumdk Ah...that's where #phosh MR https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1478 came from Nice!