All good questions/observations. Thank you.
I have thought about the placement of the hood bar and yes, if I decided to mount it, it would not be with the stock brackets. I'd fabricate a bracket that mounts to the underside, bends up with an arm that bends from the side to mount the bar to. Kind of like the ends on the ones circled in red. I would of course make sure that proper opening of the hood is not hampered.
The purpose of both would be strictly offroad OR and ONLY in the case that I'm on some middle of nowhere road in Texas and want to see deer/hogs before they create a collision course with me but of course not if there's opposing traffic as they would be utterly blinded by all the lighting.
Both bars are flood/spot combos.
As you suggested, I do want to test run them at night to see if there is any wash from them that would degrade my visibility.
The hood is currently painted with flat olive drab so it would control the amount of reflection off of it.
I'm also considering the possibility of buying a roof rack and mounting the roof light bar onto it and not drilling my sheet metal.
Note: I know it's hard to tell from the pic but there is already a 30" light bar mounted behind the grille and the OEM fogs were replaced with 7" light bars as well.