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UIs should strive to always be as customizable as possible.
Colors should be able to all be manually set by the user if they want to, rounded corners should be configurable, and the user should be able to overwrite icons and some UI elements if possible, but it shouldn't have to be on a per-app basis.
Instead, apps should ready system settings configured by the user and apply their theming unless the app is configured to do otherwise, again, by the user. Consistency by default unless you don't want it.
I can see why this opinion would be unpopular (maybe designers want to make their UI a very specific way idk)... but I like theming!!
Also, there should be a mode between dark and light mode that has black text but doesn't have a blindingly white background.
The reason that it's unpopular is that it's hard enough to design a nice app and when you add theming it gets way harder. I still think it should be supported, but I can see why it isn't.
I thin it should be like this: the system defines something like 10-15 main colors (text, text background, foreground, main accent, highlight bright, highlight dark ....). All programs are designed in terms of those colors. Designers don't put "green here, black there" but "main color here, highlight there".
But they also have the option to recommend the user a app specific color set that can either be applied to that app only or system wide.
By default every app uses their own recommended theme unless the user has set the option to override app themes with the system theme.
While I would still use dark mode if this existed, this would be a lot nicer than the blinding pure-white themes. There should, instead of light and dark themes, be white, light gray, medium gray, dark gray, and black themes everywhere.