The comments on the homebrew merge request are incredibly frustrating to me, as the kind of insanity that can lead someone to think there are only four programs that offer an ability to disable colours is something I thought I escaped by avoiding Facebook.
On one level the code allows disabling color with a flag. On another level, the code provides support for a nascent attempt at creating a new standard.
Software development is a social activity, and if someone wants to introduce new functionality, they have to convince others that it's a desirable change. Making up a "standard" is the easy part; I'd expect that convincing others to adopt it is more challenging.
Here's the workaround I use: