I’m not 100% sure the theme is too dark. I don’t like it, but I won’t blame the darkness. It’s all about contrast and positioning and structure so that you can find what you are looking for. I find the new mixer to be a morass of blobs of indistinct washes of color. I can’t tell which channel goes with which fader. I can’t tell which row goes with which column. I really just can’t find anything without actively trying to look for it. Even with the faders grouped, I can’t easily delineate one channels setting from the next. I have no such problem in C6.5 or prior. I find trying to use the mixer extremely fatiguing and cumbersome. That doesn’t even take into account the clickfest, lack of positional/zoom memory, losing plugins behind the mixer, can’t use hotkeys unless you click on the mixer, rack configs not working, workspaces not working, linking only partially working for solo/mute/record … etc … etc … etc … and that’s after a year of patches … wooohooo