Let me assure you that you do not come across as harsh or offensive at all, but I appreciate your concern.
However, I still find myself disagreeing with you. Here is why.
Darkness (as in, the spell) explicitly prevents seeing *through* it, not merely into it. So if you're standing inside of the spell's area, your eyes cannot pierce the darkness with mundane sight or darkvision, it is effectively opaque.
From a real world perspective, this makes perfect sense as well. Yes, you can see something that is in light even if you yourself are standing in perfect darkness, but this works because the light reflected off the illuminated object is reaching your eyes. Mundane light explicitly does not work inside the Darkness spell.
