Depends on the individual
I'd recommend you get out to the local outdoor stores and check what's available. I'd check how my eyes worked with the various scopes, and go from there. And hopefully you get to take care of scope and eyes and spread out the cost, over say ten years. At a larger store, I'd pick out the shadiest spot and use the scope there to spot. All antlers don't show up in the greatest of lighting conditions.
Scopes, in the end, depend on the quality of your eyes and what's in your pocketbook. So none of us are the same.
Most scopes can work at 10 in the morning under sunny skies. The better scopes work better under early dawn conditions and late sunset conditions. Better scopes work better in shadowy daylight conditions. And it gets to be a question of not seeing a deer, but seeing the antlers, in light conditions that are not always good.
In the end, you hunt what you see and the conditions under which you hunt, as a hunter.