I’m in the same boat, always got the dark grey year in year out. Got the 12 Pro Max in blue a few months back and love the color. It really is beautiful.
I did end up ordering a 12 Pro (will be here tomorrow) because the Max was just to large for me. Ordered the blue for this one as well.
My original intention was to get the PB when I jumped from the Mini to a Pro but there was none available for same day pickup so I "settled" on Graphite. Now that it's been a few weeks I'm happy I ended up with this phone as I feel the shade of blue on the camera module doesn't work with a lot of case colors while the Graphite pretty much looks good with anything.