re: Why are there so many inoperable street lights along Louisiana's highways?

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They are very bright

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Brightness isn't everything.

The led light is no longer similar to blackbody radiation, meaning it's a set of discrete wavelengths, not a continuous spectrum.

Similarly, It's also often polarized in weird ways instead of a random distribution.

What does this mean? It's why led light in high humidity or fog often reflects more than refracts, and some of those wavelengths might make it through the fog while others don't. It blinds you relative the old style faster than adding more light helps.

Then if the light is somewhat polarized, it might get filtered funny by your windshield ( turn your head with polarized sun glasses on while looking at an led screen to see an example of this).

It's why so many people today think their night vision is getting worse. Causes more eye strain at similar light levels. No it'snot your vision, it's just the light sucks.

Questioning a Louisiana public service?
You’re wasting your time.

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Entergy

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is not the only Electric Company in the state.

The answer to the OP question is there are some lazy arse people running major companies in the state.

And for decades ...

There is a street light on my road that is the old type with the open dome. It flickered and tried to light at sundown but would eventually just fade to darkness.

I read this post and located the place on Entergy's website to report that it is out. I figured I would track how long it would take for them to do something, if anything at all.

Lo and behold, less than twenty four hours later, while I was sipping my morning coffee an Entergy truck pulled up and an employee got out and changed the bulb. It works again and the extra light and security is nice.

It wasn't what I expected, but I will have to give credit where credit is due, they were actually on top of that one.

You know that’s how you get an extra fee tacked on to your Entergy bill each month.