At first changing an articulation made no difference, but as I putzed around randomly changing and adding them to notes the colors began to display. Sometimes as I moved the mouse over the notes their colors would change (which seems bugly), And by better, yes, I meant the colors displayed correctly more often.
That was the extent of my troubleshooting though, and I don’t use colors for articulations much, and I did not start with fresh prefs, so I might be missing something here.