I'm experiencing the same issue. I live in a rural area and need the same ability to see predators beyond 50 yards. I've done side by sides with my Stiletto, Tactician, and EDCL2-T and have had the same result that you report.
I read Surfire's white paper here on choosing lights: https://www.surefire.com/how_to_choose_weaponlights
Maxvision as installed on the Stiletto and my Tactician is a wide spotless beam with limited reach as the trade. TIR is as installed on our EDCL2-T and 1-Ts has both reach and surround light.
I can see multiple times using my day where the TIR wins hands down. My question is when is Maxvision more useful than TIR? I have the context of Shivwork's AMIS and don't see any disadvantage to the TIR when moving in a structure.
I cannot find a discussion on that and it might be worth it's own thread.
Interesting, Surefire does provide a light with both called the Guardian.