Color management in particular is very bad to have as an afterthought. You need to build everything around it conceptually, and make every part of the pipeline

Color management in particular is very bad to have as an afterthought. You need to build everything around it conceptually, and make every part of the pipeline color-aware, propagating the metadata end-to-end and optimizing it to exclude unnecessary transformations. Microsoft recognized the problem in Vista and still struggles with it in modern Windows versions.