> I don't find it helpful in the output of package managers, ffmpeg, etc. It's clown vomit that makes things even harder to read imo.
IMO in the case of package managers it actually makes it more readable. For example zypper (in openSUSE) uses a colored heading to group the packages it is going to install/upgrade/remove/etc and it uses a color for the first letter of each package, both making it very simple to quickly scan the packages that are going to be installed or affected whenever there is a big list of them - e.g. i can quickly skip all the libraries (since they begin with "l").
IMO in the case of package managers it actually makes it more readable. For example zypper (in openSUSE) uses a colored heading to group the packages it is going to install/upgrade/remove/etc and it uses a color for the first letter of each package, both making it very simple to quickly scan the packages that are going to be installed or affected whenever there is a big list of them - e.g. i can quickly skip all the libraries (since they begin with "l").