> There's no point in disabling color,

As someone else said, "I like strawberries, therefore everyone likes strawberries". A quick summary of potential reasons:

- it's distracting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323038)

- colorblindness (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322796)

- bad default color schemes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322812)

- escape codes may break text processing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16322600)