You certainly shouldn’t let the colour slow you down – there are lots of FW skins available from dbrand – which is a better solution to that problem, easier to have way more options and cheaper.
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Dbrand skin comes pretty close tbh
No they don’t but there is flickering because of the self illuminating pixels similar to ctrs which also did not use pwm. Not a problem for most people but some are sensitive to it and I feel sorry for them.
Noone is asking for the lcd option to go away, we just want oled to also be one.
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Apple has four colorways. Just about every laptop brand has 2 or more colorways once you hit their customizable/premium entry price-point (i.e. Framework’s competition).
I think there are a lot of people who will not buy a Framework as long as the only color choice is unanodized aluminum, and that there’s also a decent chance that Framework will at some point decide to offer at least a black/grey color option.
Good news! Framework now offers other color options! frame.work/laptop12
But of course you probably meant the FWL13, or at least a more premium device than the FWL12.
Then those people might be waiting a long time, if they’d like a Framework. Perhaps forever. 
Do note though, it’s not unanodized, it’s just anodized without any dye.
I think there is a great chance Framework will offer additional models which don’t use aluminum. Instead, perhaps glass-fiber reinforced plastic. Business class laptops, like T-series Thinkpads, have used that for decades. Since it can be really tough, and has the benefit of not holding a deformed shape if bent. People are notorious for being rougher on anything that they didn’t pay for themselves.
But some people won’t accept that, because they think it doesn’t feel premium. Those are the people who may never get to enjoy a Framework.
I could be wrong, but I suspect, and hope, that Framework won’t compromise certain base principles that they’re said are important to them.
There is also a chance that FW will find a company willing to handle color anodizing responsibly, at a reasonable cost. Or perhaps they’ll offer carbon fiber. That should satisfy at least some of those who need to feel it looks premium to others.
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I think it’s a bit of both
As shown here, an OLED screen is like a high-density “LED matrix”. To illuminate all pixels connect all Rs to Vcc and Cs to GND. To illumitate the upper-left corner, connect R1 to Vcc and C1 to GND. To illumitate the lower-right corner, connect R8 to Vcc and C8 to GND. If you want to illuminate both upper-left and lower-right, you would connect R1 and R8 to Vcc and C1 and C8 to GND, right? Wrong! Doing so will illuminate the other two corners as well so you need to alternate between R1,C1 and R8,C8. Flickering is inevitable.
However more and more modern OLED screens are flicker-free on full brightness, since displaying image requires different brightness of individual pixels they must found a way of avoiding the “LED matrix” issue above. Maybe the connections are H*W now instead of H+W? They still use PWM at lowered brightness, varies between models, some are below 99% brightness, others are below 50%, 30% or even 10%.
Buffers have been invented a long time before even the led, I don’t think that was ever an issue with oled.
Using simple bufferless multiplexing would have massively limited max brightness which for some reason is a number they are chasing so it seems pretty logical that they moved away from that pretty quick if they ever used it in the first place.
Can you point me at a source for that?
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Analysis: DC Dimming vs. PWM – Can you dim AMOLED displays without the flickering?
At 50% brightness, there is no flickering anymore, which only occurs at very low brightness levels.