After spending a fair bit of time staring at the 2.0.0 release notes, the use of the bright red/pink color and the too-large font for text that is typeset as inline code became really jarring.

Compare with the docs of pydata-sphinx-theme itself:

That is far more pleasant to read. The theme authors have spent a lot of time polishing these choices; our bright pink/red is a leftover from the initial theme (originally from Pandas).

Proposal: switch color choices and font sizes to the theme defaults.