I think you’re right, this needn’t depend on the full Yellow Brick Halfplane revamp. At least for non-noisy goals. For noisy (eg, weight loss – goals with auto-widening yellow brick roads) things are a bit messier but that’s a sub-mess that we’re also cleaning up.
To help prioritize, is this especially irksome because you find the colors really throwing you off? I agree it has to be fixed regardless, I just want to get a sense of how acute the pain is here.