Thanks for the write-up Jeff! Although I noticed in all instances you referred to me with my surname James, did you mean Daniel? ;)

Nonetheless, I'm happy with the amount of people that have come forward to help support the effort in making the dashboard darker. If anyone is willing to help out, please do! The links to GitHub (where all the development takes place) is open for bug reports etc.

I do think there's probably some more work to be done in ensuring it's just right for core, although I firmly believe I'm about 95% of the way there after looking at the reaction from the merge proposal. The trickiest thing is plugins. There's over 50k in the directory and many of them have their own styles for a unique dashboard experience. Making Dark Mode work with all of those different plugins will be something the developers will have to do, I'm only one person! :D

If you have any questions relating to Dark Mode though, please do respond to the merge proposal, ask in the support forums or raise an issue on GitHub. I look out for any activity so I'll try my best to respond. One thing I'm keen on doing is trying to meet the 5.0 deadline as this does seem to be a fairly popular feature. Fingers crossed, eh?