AMEN. You could set up any color scheme you wanted in Windows 3.1, 30 years ago. You could do so in Unix GUIs as well. The vaunted Apple UI was the exception,

AMEN. You could set up any color scheme you wanted in Windows 3.1, 30 years ago. You could do so in Unix GUIs as well. The vaunted Apple UI was the exception, forcing an inverse color scheme on all users, all the time. They refused to admit the failure of the "screen as a piece of paper" analogy that ascended during the "desktop publishing" rage of the late '80s/early '90s. So now Microsoft inexplicably REMOVED user-definable color schemes from Windows (around the time of Vista, I think), and Apple has clumsily implemented a hard-coded "dark mode." If you're a developer, you know how hideously broken numerous Apple UI controls are now as a result (rendering nearly invisible text and arbitrary background colors). You could spot Web designers and even design tools that didn't know what they were doing when you'd pull up a Web site to find it mostly blank. This meant that the page overrode your system's dark background color with white, but didn't override your white text color. The result, of course, was white text on a white background. Google embarrassingly introduced this defect into the Google News page at some point, rendering all the story abstracts invisible. Good times.