Not for noetic prayer
Many strive towards it, few will achieve it. The majority, including most non-monastics, have to "make do" with what I described. God can deal with us how He wishes.
The hesychasts disagree with you.
In another thread you took issue with a supposedly monastic practice infiltrating parish practice. Now it seems you're attempting to impose a monastic practice on laymen.

And Saint Matrona evidently did just fine without outward sight.
As hymns to her attest, her infirmity was a blessing. Her physical eyes were useless, her spiritual eyes could see the will of God. That's a gift very, very few of us will receive.
Pure prayer is imageless.
Again, a very rare ideal. For the rest of us, icons and keeping our eyes open is a real help.
The fact that you personally don't like this imagery does not constitute an unwavering tradition against them.
It has nothing to do with my own taste, but with what the church, through established tradition, has to say. I'm content with what the Church has to say about this saint's spiritual gifts, which, in turn, should inform her iconography. On St Seraphim's stoop, I have already posted on that. St John the Baptist is not shown as a headless figure holding his severed head on a platter, but whole.
This supports an iconography of the saint with her eyes closed, and the light radiating from inward.
There is no support for your proposal. The inner light of God is expressed by the halo around a saint's head, and, where this is carried out, by fine gold highlights on the saint's garments. Both are ancient and well-established ways of depicting this.