Personally I don't find minor artifacts in a beam annoying, though I accept that that is a personal thing and not a case of 'right' or 'wrong'.
After switching from using a naked flood to a gently centre-biased one, I much prefer the latter even if the process does introduce some imperfections - for a beam for caving, where much usage of flood is for walking around, having a centre-biased beam actually results in more even illumination much of the time, since the beam centre is typically pointing at things rather further away, as well as making efficient use of 'sideways' light that would otherwise be of rather limited use and delaying the need to start using spot beams for relatively nearby targets.
But I guess I am getting a bit OT.
This light does look interesting.
It would appear like the two strobe modes and one SOS mode are part of the main power sequence, which I would suspect most people would find annoying.
The choice of independent control of power and beam-blend definitely has something to be said for it, providing a lot of usable options without the issues of 'programmed' control, though it's not clear what the nature of the 'combined' mode is (is it a 50:50 blend, does it give a spot-dominated beam, etc)
Not having thermal limiting would seem a bit odd for a high-end light, given how cheap/easy it is to implement.