I found most of syntax highlighting easy distracting. But I couldn't turn it off completely as it felt weird. What I did is I modified theme who's colors I love

I found most of syntax highlighting easy distracting. But I couldn't turn it off completely as it felt weird. What I did is I modified theme who's colors I loved the most, so that it highlights less things, so that only some keywords would be highlighted like (break, return, for, if, etc). That way it helped me as screen didn't look to colorful, distracting and it didn't strain my eyes as before, but still providing some necessary information that pops out, to help me see the structure of my code better. But that is just me. I think I am not yet ready to give up syntax highlighting completely, but who knows, maybe one day. I am surely making progress towards that.