You're starting an absolute statement ("enough light to ID = enough light to align") with a vague catch-all disclaimer that "exceptions always exist." Why make the statement at all?
It's like saying, "While exceptions always exist, pistols don't malfunction."
If you acknowledge that exceptions exist, why do you overlook them? You don't elaborate on the exceptions, so I don't know your thinking. Are you saying that the exceptions are so rare that they don't matter? Or that you just don't care about them?
Many people are comfortable throwing around the blanket statement, "enough light to ID is enough light to align." It's demonstrably false. As Todd noted earlier in the thread, it may hold true in conditions that are all-light or all-dark, but mixed lighting quickly turns the entire equation upside-down.
I have my SIRT set up with Warrens because they're also on my real Glock. When it was time to outfit the SIRT, I figured I'd save money by going tritium front only. After all, it's just a SIRT: why bother getting full tritium for it?
After months of dry runs in my house, I have found plenty of lighting conditions in which I can identify a threat, but cannot see my black rear sight (or even its outline). My SIRT will eventually be getting a tritium rear.