I don’t understand what’s wrong with colors - we are still going to color-code goals, right? Or are the colors going away?
If the colors are staying, I think people will still be referring to goal states by colors - it’d be hard not to.
So we have the colors, and we have the number of days - why are additional names needed?
I appreciate wanting to accomodate color-blind users, but I don’t see how avoiding the color names is helpful for that if we’re still keeping the colors themselves.
And there are better solutions for dealing with color-blindness than “avoid color” - one possibility is to allow colors to be custom-configurable, so users could select a color scheme they could easily visually distinguish. (see my feature request)