The ship explosion whiteout is an infamous topic, on the one hand they sure make every ship explosion impactful, on the other it is hard to keep playing while your eyes start bleeding. Also by Alex' own admission they are partially a crutch to hide the sausage fabrication when the ship hull is replaced by the destroyed hulk.
I've come to suspect that Alex, surely being mindful of his health a little bit, codes in a well lit office on a dim monitor. Obviously no true GAMER respecting themselves can play any other way than in a dark room only lit by their RGB cooler and their screen, a very different setup indeed. Thus I'm proposing to gather some funds, buy a good 1000nits HDR monitor, lock it at full brightness, and get it delivered to him. I bet the whiteouts would get turned off by default under a week after that!