I understand that we can't customize the gantt chart bars anymore if it is a parent row but why am I getting random colors on the bar view in my report? I would prefer it remain grey.
The first picture is the Smartsheet and the second one is the report pulling from the sheet.
I have seen smartsheet assign colors to Gantt charts. One way to get around this is to define grouping of teams. I did this by adding a column and assigning the team or group.
I tried Erik's workaround for the random Gantt bar colors in reports. It works well to bring some order back. If you ever need a more structured timeline view across different tools, I personally use https://appliger.com/how-to-create-jira-gantt-chart/ for managing project dependencies and milestones with clear bar customization.