"What I meant to argue was, that content is king, and that everything else should serve the actual content - not distract from it."

Thank you! So many sites have utterly garbage contrast, making content unreadable - it's so annoying.

I spam this excellent discussion of color and usability as often as I can: https://designsystem.digital.gov/design-tokens/color/overvie...

but getting stupid 20 something designers with perfect vision to pay attention is almost impossible :p