It's invaluable to me for pattern recognition. Colors add a layer of contrasting, immediately parse-able information to a block of code that can make it recogni

It's invaluable to me for pattern recognition. Colors add a layer of contrasting, immediately parse-able information to a block of code that can make it recognizable at a glance, more unique than a pure grapheme skimming heuristic. I don't find it distracting, as when I'm actually reading the code I just tune it out. I don't need it, but it's definitely nice to have in a codebase with larger files.