I read through some of the pages on this post (don't have a lot of time today)
https://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123859785-2017-CX-5-drl-question/page27
and it appears that various localization of the car have a lot of different features which was new to me. I live in the USA and it appears that the bulb/connectors for the accent strip are connected with the headlight, so there doesn't seem to be a way of turning off the headlight without disabling the entire DRL accent strip which I don't want to do. It would have been nice for Mazda to offer the option in the infotainment screen to turn it off, I think they let you change the intensity but it's only low to high (i could be wrong here but I thought I saw this as an option in the car settings). Either way, not a big deal to me.
LED headlights will last a lot longer than regular halogens anyway but I like the look of them off during the day much better. I see you can turn off the headlamp by turning on sidelights but the car has an auto light on feature and I'd like to leave it on that setting, plus I don't want my parking ambers on while I'm driving. Thanks for the info though