I think the track/bus strip colors in the Track View would look more apparent and appealing if the grey coating over them was removed.
 
[BEFORE]
This is, as you know, how they currently look...... 
 

 

[AFTER]
But I think they should look like this...
 

 

I think the track number section should still be gray-coated or the numbers on bright background colors will be very difficult to read.
It's strange that I don't mind the gray coating in the Console View. But I really don't like it on the TV track/bus strips.
 
What do you think? Too bright?
 

that would make my eyes bleed..lol
 

Personally, I didn't think the color-coding shouldn't have been a priority at all, but people have been begging for it. I do believe the gray-ish look of the colors is form-fitted to the interface's classic design, hopefully departing from the age-old Electronica look or any cartoony colors. Personally, I still think X1 Light was the best color scheme. Cakewalk was too swift to retire that look, unfortunately. If I had my way, I'd want to swap out the default colors provided here and import the colors used in X1 Light's color scheme. Basic Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Brown, Purple are so pedestrian. Maybe an option to tailor the brightness or hue of the default palette, or the ability to import a color-scheme, rather than having to customize the color for every color-code selection on each channel.
 
And although I do like the fact that the color-coding finds its way into the track wavform, I do agree with another user that it would be nice to change that to color-coding the backgrounds of each waveform vs. the waveform itself. I still find the current X2/X3 interface for waveforms harder on my eyes than X1.

As you click the header to set the track color, the default color (greyed out ones) choice box appears.
To use other brighter colors you have to dig deeper into 'other colors'. 
 
I would like to be able to make my own, default color choices, in that initial color, choice box 'pallet'.
So if I wanted all bright colors from the secondary panel of 'other colors' instead of default 'greyed out' colors,
I could replace the 'greyed out' ones.
 

I don't care for the 'grayish' effect either. I ended up setting my 'Theme' to dark and then turned the track strip color to off (not at my DAW right now but it is somewhere in Preferences, and not hard to find). For me this gives me all the color I need...or want. I'd like to be able to do the same thing in Console View but unfortunately apparently I am stuck with Battleship Gray...there's always Duckbar.
 
Regards,

I like it!  The inspiration for the Sonar X series color scheme seems to have been a World War II battleship, and I heartily approve of attempts to rectify that.. 

Tunerman
As you click the header to set the track color, the default color (greyed out ones) choice box appears.
To use other brighter colors you have to dig deeper into 'other colors'. 
 
I would like to be able to make my own, default color choices, in that initial color, choice box 'pallet'.
So if I wanted all bright colors from the secondary panel of 'other colors' instead of default 'greyed out' colors,
I could replace the 'greyed out' ones.
 

I know, I've been messing around those 'other colors' to make the strips brighter, but the problem is, if you do that the colors of note events in the Piano Roll View become too bright.
 

I like it as it is which proves everybody is different and customization of everything is the key. Not a high priority on my list however.

brconflict
Personally, I didn't think the color-coding shouldn't have been a priority at all, but people have been begging for it.

 
Actually, same here. I didn't particularly want the color-codable strips. What I was hoping for was the ability to give a desired color to each track name text background color (both in TV and CV). Since this will probably never happen, I've decided to color-code the strips. I first chose the option to color-code the left-most part only, but then I found it somewhat difficult to identify which tracks are what, so I decided to color-code the whole strips, and then....grayish.

I'll add this: I still want to send a note to Steinberg and tell them, in regard to Cubase's current look: "1990 called and wants their teal green meters back."
 
One of the things that sold me on X1 was the GUI color-scheme.