For home defense....red dot all the way.

I would imagine that 90%+ of home defense applications would be in the dark...thereby rendering traditional open sights/scopes useless anyway.

In your home, in the dark, you have the advantage. You know your home's layout...intruders don't, unless it's someone you know. You still have the advantage in that case, though.

The vast majority of our special forces use either Aimpoint or EOTech (with a few going for Trijicon) for clearing buildings...essentially home defense style work. I trust what they use.

In the pitch dark, a red dot is as worthless as anything else when you can’t see your target. If you add some light, to see your target, then most other stuff works, also. “The vast majority of our special forces“ do NOT use either Aimpoints or EoTechs. There are more Trijicons (of various types...dot, prism. LPV) on our books (last I saw), some Aimpoints, some Elcans, and some leftover EoTechs. It doesn’t really work like that, anyway....most any individual has 2-3 different options assigned/available, for the use at hand. They pick what fits that niche. Red dots can work great, but they’re not necessarily always inherently ‘better’, than other stuff.....other stuff can have illuminated aiming points AND stuff red dots don’t.