The current look seems to come directly from an artist's impression, featured by NASA:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20110823.html
Given that, I'm not too bothered by the overall look of them, especially since Elite's cockpits seem to have an "ambient light correction" feature, as evidenced by the brightening of dark sides of planets.
Of course, that's also a bit over done, in my opinion - dark sides
and Y-class dwarfs could do with some dimming of the ambient light... but at least FDev is fairly consistent in how they handle low light environments.