879 votes in the last 5 years on this topic since 2019.

These are just the ones I found with some brief searching. By no means an exhaustive scouring of the Canny forum DB:

• https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/change-color-for-default-closed-status

• https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/tasks-with-closed-status

• https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/gant-chart-v3-traffic-lighting-option-to-replace-custom-color-coding

• https://clickup.canny.io/feature-requests/p/change-colours-of-process

I'm sure many other users detest this design choice and have made the same suggestion into the void here; just like decades of JIRA users complaining about the same issue to Atlassian who also ignored them -

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Is-it-possible-to-change-the-color-of-status-other-than-to-do-in/qaq-p/1347047

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Is-there-any-way-to-change-the-workflow-status-color/qaq-p/1297419

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Regarding-work-flow-status-colors/qaq-p/1819944

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Jira-status-colours-seem-wrong-Blue-means-complete-done-not/qaq-p/1138106

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-can-I-change-the-status-colour-in-my-next-gen-or-classic/qaq-p/1520463

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-63999

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-63999

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-37395

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-37395

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-37433

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-79030

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-23405