yup. the weird thing was that when i opened theme preferences menu it showed all colors as fully transparent. there must still be some cringe about reading\writing present
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As a last resort, if nothing helps you can go to your Aseprite preferences folder, delete the theme-preferences folder, and restart Aseprite.
This will hard delete the extension.
(I’ll add this instruction to a troubleshooting section)