I came across a peculiar site. It’s called https://no-color.org (terminals). Xterm and ansifilter work well for programs that are unable to contextually disable colors.

ls -la | ansifilter   # Remove colors from output
xterm -cm             # Set color mode to false
export NO_COLOR=true  # For programs that follow

I used to wonder why some preferred no syntax/color highlighting. It turns out that output can/will be hidden (e.g black on black, white on white) and color contrasts/distinctions are the ultimate talk past.