Fusion UI: Tool color is not terribly useful

There are a number of things that can be done in Fusion standalone with a node's tile color, not the least of which is making it stand out in the node graph so that someone can find relevant controls quickly. The little colored line, while attractive, is not as functional.

In addition, Resolve seems to enforce a limited number of tile colors, even when assigned by script command.

tool.TileColor = {R = 0.1, G = 1.0, B = 0.1} and tool.TileColor = {R = 0.2, G = 1.0, B = 0.2} give the exact same result. Querying that tile's color after assigning it yields

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table: 0x029b1703bd88
   __flags = 256
   B = 0.12549019607843
   R = 0.37254901960784
   G = 0.6


This makes it difficult to perform scripting based on tile color because the input doesn't match the output. In addition, the pre-determined color pool places a hard cap on the number of categories tools can be sorted into, particularly since several of the available colors already carry meaning of their own.

I don't mind a predetermined list of named default colors, but please open the field to allow us to assign any RGB value. We're not running CGA graphics here!

Yes, this is definitely the most important UI problem for me. I like the Flow node color scheme in the stand-alone version much better. I have many complicated comps and without the color over the entire node, the entire Flow blends together into an oppressive stew of gray goo. This makes it much harder to find what I'm looking for, which makes the design process much more tedious, which makes the entire experience much less enjoyable.

I don't like using the image thumbnails because that consumes too much visual space in the Flow. So, please add a configuration option to the UI settings to allow us to turn back on the stand-alone node coloration behavior so that Resolve/Fusion Flow nodes look the same as they do in Fusion stand-alone. Thank you!