If colored animals are going to cause you suffering, pixel shades in an online game are the least of your worries.It's about knowing if the players asking for it will suffer more from not implementing the idea than players hating the idea would suffer from the implementation of the idea.
It's not just because it's a group from Stratics or UOHerald, it's because it's a small segment of the overall population. Stratics is further skewed because it has a larger percentage of vets who have been playing nearly since day one who are very resistant to change, and want a return to the old days of UO. If you take 1000 random stratics posters and 1000 random active accounts, that Stratics group is going to have a much lower amount of newer players because many of them don't read stratics as faithfully as vets do, either that or they just don't know about it.Also, I don't see why UO Stratics users or UOHerald readers wouldn't be a representative portion of the UO players. There's always a margin of error, but there's no difference between 1,000 random UO Stratics users and 1,000 random UO players ingame.
Not that it matters either way. By the sounds of it the dyes are in game, they're just tweaking color choices. I'd be very surprised if it didn't happen at this point.