I'm with you. I would absolutely hate sunrise at 8:30am. And without daylight savings, sunrise at 8:30, sunset would still be at 6:00pm. Most people I know still aren't home by 6pm so it's not like we would get hours of daylight after work anyway. Sunshine Act just makes mornings worse and evenings not really better.

I looked into a light alarm clock, I couldn't find one I liked so I eventually just went with a smart lightbulb in my bedroom lamp. Its basically the same thing but its just a light bulb with scheduling capabilities through a phone app. I have the Phillips system. Since getting that one light bulb, I now have them in my entire house. Extremely easy to set timers, dimming from my phone, turns on and off with location so never come home to dark house, change colors for holidays. It can also be voice activated from phone or Alexa. And motion sensors available for closets, etc. Highly recommend.