Just looked out of my window. The article author is correct - blandness is taking over our world. Here's the colour count for cars parked in my street:

8 black
2 grey/silver
2 white
1 blue (it pulled up & parked while I was looking)

"My friend once came to see me in a flat I’d just moved into. This was Lee Dixon, the former footballer and a television colleague at the time. He looked around approvingly but said: “You’ve got to be a bit careful here. Your carpets, your sofa and your walls are all grey. You’ve got these big windows and outside the clouds are grey. Your hair is grey and so are your clothes. Your disposition’s a bit grey sometimes, too. You’re blending in. I can barely see you. You might have to put on some hi-vis.”#color #colour #bland #cars #design #grey #VisualStimulation #dreary

Everything has turned grey – cars, clothes, kitchens, carpets. I can’t take it any more | Adrian Chiles | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/28/everything-in-our-world-is-grey-how-did-we-come-to-this