[mediocregopher]

Most software that I use regularly which does color output does it well, and it's probably a net benefit for me.

But sometimes software that I use irregularly, or only in specific circumstances, does it poorly, and it's a real pita. I've had occasions where I missed entire pieces of output because they rendered as the background color for some reason. So for those cases it'd be nice to have a universal switch, so to speak, to just turn it off.

I also get that for some people it's just an aesthetic choice... I don't think color is _that_ helpful that someone would be impaired by not having it.

All that said, this proposal reminds me of that one xkcd with the 13 competing standards.