[Help Please] Overly bright or blue skies

[Rokuma]

Since I started playing again around Crystal Isles release I have skies so bright they cause me to look down or suffer a headache.

Bloom and lightshafts off does not fix this.
I've tried -nomansky launch option, setting sky to minimum, max settings, minimum settings, nothing seems to change this.

My gamma is usually set to 1.5-1.8 during the day, and even with this it is either too dark to see or too bright to look at. I can't even tell if a drop is white or yellow, sometimes blue and green are hard to tell as well, and that's if I can see them (especially on the blindingly blue days)

Overly bright skies[cdn.discordapp.com] are my normal day no matter where I am.
Blindingly bright blue[cdn.discordapp.com] that apparently happens when others see thick cloudy overcast with some fog

Any ideas are welcome
Extra: I really wish distance fog could be disabled completely...if that IS possible (without a mod) please tell me.