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They are utility, as long as you don't have a theme that randomly picks a new colour every time the token type changes.
It's a bit like having a bunch of different tools or utensils in separate colours. Even if the drawer is messy and the colour ultimately arbitrary, you can pick out utensils because you're habituated to looking for a given colour.
Just stick to one theme and you'll get the same thing but for code. Theme hopping kills your habituation, and resets you to the "I can tell that these are different things because the colours are different" stage.