I don’t know if you’re looking for solutions, but if you Google how to pull apart that centre console for your specific car, it’s usually fairly easy and there’ll be videos showing you how. You could do a reasonable job of painting it or covering it with a material that’s not so shiny.
Haha an average session on the website was about eight and a half minutes. Must be alot of folks that come to see one post and leave to average out those of us that are terminally online.