Greyscaled colored assets

Some objects have the option to change their color.s to selected hues.
While that option is great, it is limited to objects with less "texture" like liquids or clean cloth; and also causes some assets with more texture to have 4 options simply of different color/color associations that look like duplicates.
My suggestion is to make colored assets (meaning assets with set dyes used on them, meaning for example carpets, tiled floors, wallpaper) greyscaled and allow specific colors to be applied to them.
Potentially extend it to all of the assets if the engine allows it.