I met a mk8 Golf coming towards me after dark last night. I agree with @Jim_mk7.5, that full width front lighting strip looked pretty tacky IMO. It’s the sort of thing I might have expected to see on a 1980’s/1990’s American car - in fact I think there may have been such a US car from that era with a deeper, more prominent full width illuminated strip but I can’t find any pictures of it.
If I had a mk8 Golf and there was any way to turn that lighting strip off, I most certainly would.