Yes but you can wrangle your tones and colours in other ways as has basically been the norm in digital imagery . That the current solution is the correct one is an aesthetic decision. There are other compromises one can choose to make. Sacrificing brightness relationships for colour is one.
No long ago people were arguing for the mathematical correctness of hues whilst anyone with eyes could see that the results were unnatural. (the salmon wars)
The problem was the assumption that hues shouldn’t change. The brightness thing is a similar assumption/choice. One I agree with but still a goal/assumption.
Writing this from the passenger seat of a car on pitch black northern roads. The complete redness of taillights is probably worth preserving in some images.