Your opinion is definitely of value, unsolicited or not. 
I’ve already told the head of firmware development at LIFX that the uplight and downlight shouldd be exposed as individual “lights” via the LAN protocol to make control of them significantly easier and more flexible. Whether or not this is ever actually implemented is up to LIFX.
I’m using one in my living room alongside a chandelier, and I had to manually control the up lights through custom effects until I set up a template light. It’s a bit of a workaround, but once you define each zone clearly in YAML, it gets easier to automate. Getting the up light and down light to sync or act separately does take some trial and error with the current LIFX integration.