In the marine world this is a massive issue. There are so many arguments as to what the best lighting is and they tend to revolve around just a few high end lights. The truth of the matter is Chinese black boxes (basically a nickname for all lower end lights) will grow corals, maybe not as quickly or with the same colouring but they will grow.
We need to remember that the higher end lights are generally the ones who do all the advertising, whether by giving them to you tubers, shops or using influential people in the hobby, and this means they achieve the cult following. I was shocked that everyone always says what a sexy filter the ada has when to me it just looks like a pedal bin that someone has balanced a pump on.
Unfortunately a lot of the planted lights seem to be an after thought from manufacturers that are predominantly marine but wanted a slice of the freshwater action (ie aqua illumination and radion).
I myself still use aqua illumination sol leds which were first released in 2008 (I'm cheap like Darrel and only have them because customers dropped them in their tanks and the manufacturer didn't want them back, so I fixed them) . Since their invention the biggest competitor radion has had 6 different iterations of their led (they also came out a few years after) which all arrive with pomp and parade. I can still grow sps perfectly well with my lights as can those with the first generation radion and it seems the initial selling point for leds no longer applies (at least in the marine hobby), which was to lower running costs but today it's actually cheaper to run halides for most people.