My opinion, if you are going to provide new interface which makes it easier to identify tiles then do that first.
However if this feature is going to take significant time to implement then don’t leave the customers confused as to why their device is acting weird. This issue took me some significant time to prove to myself it wasn’t something I was doing wrong. Then I went to the community to find a post about this from July 2014. That’s 7 months with no resolution as of yet.