Nothing wrong with being an outlier but if you can explain, I'd like to know why you prefer it (when you can, that is).
I'm not mad on going mad with colours and effects, something that happens too much, but even some minimal visual feedback can be disproportionately helpful I feel.
I'm the kind of person who lives in the cli, so I love tui's, I use a tiling window manager and gnu screen heavily. For me, it just fits my workflow.
I have slowly been transitioning away from using emacs for everything though. I use it as my text editor but I no longer use it for rss, irc, email, etc. I would probably change my tune if I went back to that.
I'm not mad on going mad with colours and effects, something that happens too much, but even some minimal visual feedback can be disproportionately helpful I feel.