I'm a bit baffled by all this, but this is not new. My elegance has drl's which can be disabled via a switch in the in cabin fuse box. I have never been flashed because of them. When I turn my sidelights or headlights on  the drl's go off, so I am baffled by reports of them going dim. I also have fog lights at the front which, as GoneoffSki correctly says, are rarely useful. They were designed to be used before modern patterned headlights to 'cut under' fog or mist. As you cannot use foglights without dipped headlights by definition they become useless at anything other than crawling speed. Am I missing something here??? :-)

You are unlikely to miss seeing a mk2 vRS's Sidelights coming shining blueish down where Fog or Driving lights would normally be.

When you do need Fog lights for real fog then going slow really is what can be required.

Skoda had the nerve to keep publishing that the vRS had front fog lights.