[hellofunk]

I find Xcode quite a joy to use. It seems well laid-out, not a lot of UI chrome, easy to find the things you need and get things out of the way when you don't. Code completion, debugging, it's all pretty great for me. Not sure if the degree of your hate for it is accurate.

[melloclello]

I agree, Xcode is definitely the best looking IDE by light years. Now if only it had a dark mode...

[hellofunk]

Have you checked out the Fonts and Colors panel in the Preferences? You can choose both font color and background color and other items.

[melloclello]

Yeah, but all the panels remain white.