I certainly agree. The brightness of a lantern that can light up an entire room with just one placement is useful, but the fact that it requires no power source and attracts no zombies obviously eliminates the need for electric lighting.
Frankly, I think the lantern should be about as good as a "torch that keeps zombies away."
Instead, I'd like to see some of the electric lighting made as bright as the lanterns we have now, so that electric lighting would come into play.