erinstellato when our "votes and comments" are treated like "thoughts and prayers", we get frustrated. And to see that thousands of votes for a dark theme gets rolled up into a "Idea collection", it feels like it's intentionally getting buried.
I'd ask you to stop kicking the Dark Theme problem down the road since ADS isn't going to replace SSMS, but clearly someone else has made that decision again:
https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/daadae7a-34dd-ed11-8847-000d3a1f897b
"Unfortunately, the complexity to implement dark mode into SSMS is prohibitive and this item remains unplanned. Regular updates and improvements to SQL Server Management Studio are continuing, but most of the net new innovations in the graphical tooling space can be expected to be seen in Azure Data Studio. -Drew"
--20+ year Microsoft stack dev who's tired of SSMS blasting my eyeballs out