I must have a very different brain shape than the author. Color processing is for me subconcious, I don't get the "color overload" situation at all because my brain has hardware accelerated it long ago, there is no concious load to track additional colors or pick out differences. The only time I experience that is when looking at someone else's color scheme when pairing.

It lost me after this part:

> Here’s a quick test. Try to find the function definition here:

I found them instantly with more color, and struggled with less, and found the same for all the subsequent examples as well.