Oh please can this be changed. I was just about to make use of "set recipe" for things like logistics chests in my mall and after discovering this behaviour I'm probably just not going to bother. I was really looking forward to the set recipe feature so this is very disappointing.

I discovered that if the parameterised station name matches an existing station then it will use that colour. So I made a reference area with just stations to set all the colours and then have parameterised blueprints that include the station and whatever else I want.