I certainly agree, but it would take a very long time to implement given that the resistor color code goes back well before WWII. I can't remember when the system was introduced but resistors in all those early superhetrodyne radios from about 1930 onwards used it, thus we've going on 90 years worth of electronics installed with color-coded resistors (and more recently capacitors).
This is an enormous legacy, and even given the more rapid turnover of electronics these days there's still going to be a huge legacy of color-coded components for many decades to come.
If you are in electronics then you'll know that even relatively inexperienced people can read and sort resistors almost as fast as they can pick them up. In essence, determining the value of a resistor is about as fast as the human reaction time gets which is less than 100 milliseconds (about the speed a fluent reader reads words - like Morse code, one doesn't sequentially read the colors but recognizes the pattern as a whole). Therefore, any replacement system would have to be as easy and compatible or it'd likely meet with opposition.
It seems to me the reason the resistor color code has had such longevity is that it's so dead easy to learn and so easy to use. Perhaps the best solution would be to implement both schemas but then there's the likely problem of having sufficient surface space on the component to implement it (it's already a major problem on modern circuit board components as everything is so small).
You're absolutely right, colorblind people need a better deal, especially males who are disproportionately afflicted. If I recall only about 1% of women are affected, it was one of the major reasons why they were preferred over men on production lines, etc.