On a light short optic high magnification is always a problem. If objective of a scope is D and magnification is M, then exit pupil (physical size of an image you are looking at) is D / M. For a 24mm objective at 8 magnification exit pupil will be AT BEST 24/8 is 3mm. An Vortext 1-10 gen III razor is 24/10 = 2.4mm exit pupil and pretty hard to get behind no matter how many reviews they have. (
https://youtu.be/WSjVcVsBzig?t=662)
The smaller the exit pupil is the harder is to get "behind the scope" and the more restrictive it will feel. If you care about that, a more regular 3-9 or something not "1x" will always be better and cheaper. 1-6 Strike Eagle is in fact better choice than 1-8 Strike Eagle, especially for the money. If you really think 4x is too little you probably want 12x to see a real difference for the money spent and extra bulk on a gun.
If you have perfect position on a bench and a ideal cheek weld than small exit pupil will be ok. If you want shoot with unstable odd position you won't be using that 8x easily.
If you want a lot of more niche optics talk about LPVO you might want to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oumkxt8ARYs probably at 1.5 or 1.75 speed )
PS
Just got my hands on Delta Stryker HD 1-6x24. It sounds silly, but it is amazingly good just because the red dot is very bright and it is a dot, nothing more. No tacticool, just a dot, but it is bright bright. It is better red dot than a red dot because the field of view is huge at 1x at there is no tint, plus the simple cross hair is converging on the dot. All the Strike Eagles and Primary Arms are way too heavy on hashes and horseshoes and holdovers, but it is a dark blob in a middle, especially if your target is not white bright big sheet of paper. And there is nothing you can do to help it because illumination is too dim.
