Yes, it hasn’t been fixed.
Exactly. Welcome to my pain 
Because this one doesn’t have a difficulty limitation.
Anywhere between 50% and 6%, depending on the quip.
Laziness. Squadron licenses deletion is problematic if the squadron has had any kind of activity (or even just added members), so I decided to sweep the problem under the rug by not making them sellable. 
Acknowledged. The color change is done with RGB modulation of the existing gray texture, so there’s only so much you can do. It’s not worth devoting separate texture space for that is essentially a minor variation.