Go back and read Pastmaster's last response. Is Khaled arrogant because he pioneered something that ended up being accepted by most? People should upgrade software when updated versions become available, so that solves any long term problems with respect to compatability, except of course those that use other clients (going by Quakenet's poll - 7% many of which are probably just bots anyway). Assuming that, you might have 5% of all connections that are real people using clients like X Chat and Bersirc and whatever else there is. All we have here is a small group of client authors waiting for someone in that group to devise a way of increasing the number of possible colours in the least inconvenient way possible - IE: waiting for someone else to make a move.

At the end of the day I think addition of colour would be nice but it is a trivial subject and the impleentation and any possible incompatibility would also be trivial so stop losing sleep over it. The addition of more colour is not going to destroy the world.