While people are welcome to their preferences aesthetically between red and yellow, I’m fairly certain the outcry over the red has more to do with a red label book being devalued compared to it’s yellow counterpart.
Exactly. The bottom line is that witnessed signatures are worth more in the marketplace than their subjectively verified distant cousins - the red label had little, if anything, to do with this.
One of the goals of a grading company should be to reduce confusion - this does the exact opposite.