I am with you, nothing raises my bloodpressure with my nexus more than the autobrightness going super dark. I have powertoggles installed but its just like COME ON!
Yea that's absolutely ridiculous. I'm really disappointed with Google on that one. I've had the phone for a few days now and it's the one thing that makes me wish I still had my Galaxy S3. It's like the autobrightness setting is drunk and has no clue WTF it's doing. Sometimes it's way too bright, other times it's too dark, or it'll just randomly scroll through different brightness settings.
Also, just so I understand the fixes correctly: I can either 1) used Xposed (w/e that is), 2) install Franco Kernel, 3) install Lux.
Would a custom ROM such as Carbon or SlimKAT fix this too? Or are those my only 3 real options?