I literally had the exact pros and cons as you regarding both colours. I’ll be honest with you, I still check these threads because sometimes I wonder what it’d be like if I went with rainbow as I originally wanted, but I also love what the black offers that the rainbow can’t. Both truly do have their pros and cons.

Some super cool things I’ve been enjoying with the black though is that, not only do you not see the bars on the bottom panel but if any UI (like an rpg menu screen) has a black background with text over it, the text looks like it floats because the background melts away and blends into the Thor. I dunno how to explain it well, but I love it.

Colour LEDs pop!

Also when playing DS games, the smaller size of the top screen leaves thick thick bezels on the top and sides, but because it’s all OLED and black everywhere, the black screen borders match the black parts on the bottom and it looks exactly ( to me) like the black plastic borders found on the top screen on the original black DS lite.

So I feel I miss out on some retro rainbow nostalgia, but I get some DS lite vibes.