I concur.
This is why I've always preferred the "thermal" color scale. It's much more intuitive in that black is minimum and white is maximum with brown, red, orange, yellow in between.
In fact I tried hard with the rainbow color scale in PFE and CalcImage, so we don't have black at both sides of the rainbow color scale as seen here:
This is a reasonable compromise I think, though I still prefer the thermal scale as seen here:
Though some people are fans of this color scale used by JEOL: