No yeah, you're correct. I could've explained the light thing better. I'd disregard that white to color thing I said earlier. I'm terrible with lighting myself and usually avoid messing with it for the 2D games I work on. Mostly just tossing ideas tbh.
Now reflecting on it, I guess my main thing is for me personally, it doesn't look like the bulb is lighting the room. It's almost like they need to be brighter maybe? Like I narratively accept that the lighting effect is being caused by the bulbs lighting the room, not that the bulb is. Honestly now reflecting on it, it could just be the black outline on the bulbs interrupts the look, or maybe even the fact that each individual bulb doesn't appear to have a another stronger tinier light, that is causing this.
When I look a this picture, it just looks like the brightest of the color is what is fading out. It's almost like the actually shape of the bulb is all white and light effect itself is what the color is, not that the actual bulb is white with colored borders.