Yes, I think we’ll definitely add a category color in some way. Keeping things monochrome to start simplified some questions around the initial implementation, but the colors have always been something we’ve associated with categories…
Rather than supporting the alternative category styles, we’ve considered moving those options to stand-alone theme components instead and making the default bullet style the sole category style. That would simplify quite a lot as well.
One situation I’d be interested in more feedback on is how to style icons associated with subcategories… does it seem reasonable to extend the subcategory color split to other icons as well? so for example a chat channel mention associated with a subcategory could look like this:
