Is dark theme dark enough?

I’m talking about dark theme on the main SC website.

How to activate dark theme if you don't know:

For example, the color used for the tooltips on asterisk,

It fails a contrast test miserably:
https://coolors.co/contrast-checker/4886c1-414141

Even the regular check only receives a “good” rating on normal text:
https://coolors.co/contrast-checker/c3c3c3-414141

If we make the background a bit darker, we get a good rating:
https://coolors.co/contrast-checker/c3c3c3-2d2d2d

Dark themes are very difficult to do right. As a result I rarely use them. But it feels like currently it’s so bad that it should be improved.

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