Most of why I think it is nutty is because most of the reasons given to support disabling highlighting boil down to "I don't like this particular colorscheme".

Most of why I think it is nutty is because most of the reasons given to support disabling highlighting boil down to "I don't like this particular colorscheme". Which editors make it difficult to customize your colorscheme? All of the popular ones that I know of make it simple. Even nano makes it simple.