Swatches are VERY frustrating as it stands. There are so many similar non-matching swatches between packs or base game that make many building and decorating options looks just too mismatched. Sadly, some of these are even for newer packs L&D/EbN/R&L can't seem to have the same rich medium wood (and sometimes with a mismatched gold accent), making these packs not look good used together. And some pack swatches don't even match within their own pack too.
Medium rich/red woods example:
RoM has no Cabinets so trying to match from another pack is impossible! No cross-pack swatch harmony is really annoying.Medium rich/red woods with different coloured gold accents example:
Some golds are not too terrible for match but still almost never have a match unless the same set from the same pack.Doesn't match from their own pack.Doesn't match from their own pack.These are just the tip of the iceberg. I really wish they used more universal swatches, at least when they are clearly using similar/like colours. Sometimes you do not want perfectly matched build/buy objects, but other times you want a level of harmony.
L&D vs. R&L reds and teals that make me sad, that I can't use better together example:
