The old Illuminator model has a much better backlight. https://www.amazon.com/Casio-F105W-1A-Illuminator-Sport-Watc...

The G shocks have the same new abysmal backlight.

I bought one with a slick (new) dark red face....which lights up bright pink from the one white LED on the left side of the face.

Even in the marketing/landing page for this watch which is linked in post.....they show the backlight feature, looking like it's missing an LED.