An Israeli aircraft I flew did not have separate switches for the beacon and the strobes, it was either all or nothing and no beacon is not an option.

We caught a lot of grief taxiing around with our strobes on and felt like jerks the whole time. Hopefully Gulfstream fixed that problem when they bought the aircraft type.

The largest DEN based airline used to stress me out no end with all their lights on the runway, but then I did as mooney suggested and stopped staring at them.... I don't know why it took me so long to figure that out....