Disable dim effect in Isolation Mode???

Groups are an excellent way to design encapsulated objects, but when editing color in Isolation Mode all other groups/layers are desaturated which makes it impossible to edit color in respect to the entire illustration.
I'd expect a way to disable the dimming effect somewhere in a menu option or preference setting.  Anyone know?

There's a valid case for this I think.  Having isolation mode without dimming would be useful for editing the colours of objects which are only partly obscured by foreground objects but which for various reasons may have their entire selectable region covered.  For example you might have background stripes on a view and want to custom colour them with all of the foreground present (my current dilemma). 
Of course you can use the layers panel but isolation would be more convenient.  Locking is an option too of course but I have certain objects I lock all the time and manually locking everything would obscure my normal working state when I go to remove the temporary locks.  Isolation mode solves this more elegantly. 
I also find when editing shapes, I often wish to be able to see them in their proper colour context too. 
Maybe what's needed is a addition to the layers panel:  A "solo" mode.

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