Just observing real life and photos on a daily basis for over 30 years … there is no such thing as “ambient-light” in real life btw there is only “light” (photons). Ambient light just like ao are rendering “tricks”.
I maintain that it would be neat for the users to be able to choose how much ao they want in directly lit areas for both realism and stylizations sake others have asked for this before too:
although with the intent of pushing it in the opposite direction but thats fine by me I am just arguing pro control the current look can still remain the default there is no problem with that.