Strongly disagree with the author on this. Syntax highlighting for me is to be able to differentiate discrete parts of code rather than being able to quickly identify what is what. I don't rely on syntax highlighting for catching errors since linters/compilers are a much more appropriate tool for that. Their color scheme is far too bare bones that it feels like one step above writing code in notepad. I have to do more thinking to see what the code is doing in the "improved" color scheme where the "inferior" version I can mentally see each part is distinctly different from the other parts. Maybe if they didn't use such a clickbait title I would be less harsh.