I too preferred the tires, but I had trouble telling dirty from clean. Up here in the north snow is normal - white and dry tires would be easier for these old eyes.
Yeah, the feedback I recieved from the tires is that the idea was good, but people who didn't have top of the line monitors had trouble contrasting the two. They also looked a tad amaturish.
On the new arrows... I take offense to that. I spent 2 hours on those.