We have better colour already, and Kaleido is years old.
The issue, though, isn't the colour but lack of a 7″ mono eink from Kobo.
It's not about resisting change but having choice reduced to an inferior product if you only want mono.
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These are the same individuals who were hesitant to upgrade from a flip phone to a smartphone or complained about switching from traditional TV to streaming.
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This is nonsense on two levels. Nothing to do with those changes, which are unrelated.
The demographic that wants flip phones and doesn't want streaming may have little overlap.
Flip phones still exist.
No-one is forced to only have streaming video. Broadcast cable, terrestrial, satellite, DVD and BD are still available. VHS is gone, but it was rubbish.
CDs are also still available.
The streaming video is subscription only for non-trivial content. Broadcast has Free to Air and can be recorded to play later. They are complementary.
We got colour broadcast in the early 1950s in USA and late 1960s to early 1970s elsewhere. Colour home video in late 1970s. Home color movies in 1940s!
Colour ebooks since at least 1998 on dedicated ereaders. Same year as 1st smartphone. Ebooks on PDAs are earlier.
The first eink was 2005 and first eink Kindle 2007.
The Amazon Fire (really a color Android tablet) was released as Kindle Fire in 2011.
Onyx first did eink in 2011 and
their color Kaleido Plus was March 2021 (three years ago)
Most people read ebooks on phones and tablets, which are colour.
There are a small number of LCD based phones and tablets and a larger number of monitors (going back to flat-face CRTs over 30 years ago) that are almost as good to read on as mono eink, thus better than Kaleido eink, from under 6" up to 32" 4K.
We have not had mono LCD graphics panels (for laptops) for maybe 30 years and Smart phones all colour for over 20 years. Why? Because unlike Kaleido there is no disadvantage and only advantages for colour LCD. LCD and QLED still use mono LCD panels, but much higher resolution to allow true colour RGB, and higher resolution than early mono LCD computer panels.
The resolution of eink stopped increasing about 10 years ago. The speed improvements in 10 years are marginal and 100 times to 300 times slower than most other graphics panels.
I'm fine with Kaleido being offered, but it's inherently inferior to mono eink as it's a mono eink panel with coloured dots printed on it. It can never be as good. That's physics and mathematics, not opinion.
Only the very best mono eink are better than the best LCD for reading mono text.
The objection is not to Kaliedo, but there being no Kobo 7″ mono now.