Thanks for the recommendation. I’m trying it right now and you’re certainly right that it’s still high contrast and square avatars.
I ran my work iPad in dark theme all the time just to stretch the battery life out to a full workday without having to carefully ration my use throughout my shift. Didn’t much like it that way, but I got used to it. Sigh.
I’ve never been a fan of dark mode for actual reading & writing and such. I’ll give this a fair try & see if I can adapt overcome. I see I don’t much care for how it renders deleted and inserted text; the pink and green colors are much more visible in SD Light. These look like somebody just picked the RGB inverses of the SD Light colors, rather than picking colors to contrast properly with a dark background.
At least bold and underline look good.