Isn’t this discussion more about poor contrast?
Confession: I assumed “Neutral” referred to a theme. But looking for it, I can’t find it. Where’s it at?
As an aside, I prefer to give my personal pages a light blue color and not pure white.
I don’t know, is the code “aware” of contrast based on color and background-color values and should it do anything about it, or should that be left entirely as a design decision?
I may be wrong, but my take is the “main” theme is “how the author wants the design” and the child themes are “I agree with the theme author on most design decisions, except for these”. i.e. use the theme you like best and tweak it the least amount necessary.