The amount of people that it would bother are few, and old so not a major concern. if anything the light bulb is an achievement in refining a common technology. Making a wire turn white hot is not that hard, making it not burn out almost immediately is.
I've made my own short-lived filament, a lead from a mechanical pencil, connected to 24VAC, in open air. It glows very brightly for a few seconds before it fails.
I don't think Edison would be upset at the use of LEDs; rather, he would praise the forward movement of technology and laugh at the glorification of old, inefficient technology. But that's just my opinion.
