The lumens are standardized for averaged eye sensitivity curve and (most important) are derived from the illumination level the given lamp provide within (given setup). I think the way, how the eye respond to the cold vs warm light is given by the conditions humans were exposed to during the evolution history. The colder lamps look brighter, because the colder light is more aggressive in a concentrated form (one, rather small bright spot). Humans evolved for many millenniums with cold light color only in the form of diffused light from the sky, the concentrated one was either the direct sun (then on blue sky background and too bright to look at it directly) and/or rather low temperature fire. Maybe as the sun (the only concentrated form of colder color light) is so powerful to actually harm the eye when directly looking at it, it build up an instinct to feel any focused cold light in that manner, so look out. And as with the sunlight there was plenty of light, so eyes did not have to be as sensitive. But with the fire (the only artificial light available for humans for evolutionary significant time) there was only small amount of radiated power, so eyes had to be more sensitive.
Technically speaking, the efficiency in generating radiant power is about the same, regardless of the lamp CCT.
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