Changing the default Color Theme in 7.1 (2023)

I've noticed today that I can no longer change a website's default colour theme on the mobile app. It seems that this is no longer an option after reading up and talking to SQS Support.

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815278-Changing-colors#toc-default-color-themes

I can't understand why this is now effectively baked in to the template, and since you can't change a 7.1 template without building a new website, this seems unbelievable to me. 

I guess I'm just complaining, and need to change my process, but switching a website from a light to a dark design now will involve taking the default "Light 1" theme and changing every single colour option individually. Or maybe turning the colour pallete upside down would work? Any good ideas? Thanks.

Yes!!! This is so annoying. My hopes is that they've disabled this workaround to create a proper option that works for desktop also... For now we wait I guess :/

6 minutes ago, potterytothepeople said:

For now we wait I guess 😕

Hmmm, I like your optimism but we've been waiting a couple of years already....

3 hours ago, Ziggy said:

Hmmm, I like your optimism but we've been waiting a couple of years already....

I see 😞

This afternoon I actually bit the bullet and swapped all the formatting on each of the colors so that the default is finally the correct color. I am just paranoid now that I missed something haha

1 minute ago, potterytothepeople said:

I see 😞

This afternoon I actually bit the bullet and swapped all the formatting on each of the colors so that the default is finally the correct color. I am just paranoid now that I missed something haha

Oh wow, good on you! That's quite the undertaking