Blends against the typical light colors most men will be wearing via their button down.

Basically you only wear it if you’re wearing a dark button down, and even then I’d say only if it was REALLY dark since white is eye catching in a way that can clash with your presentation of the other colors in your ensemble.

I got a light colored tie recently and already I’ve been looking carefully at what in my wardrobe will work with it for the special occasions I want to wear it for.

Probably the same reason in many sports like cycling white is the winning color. It gets dirty so easily that you can’t really keep wearing it. A tie is out there touching and getting touched. It will likely have a shorter life. Plus the modern bright white is fake and involves additives that shift higher non visible frequency wavelengths into the visible spectrum. That’s why your white towels and bright white undershirts turn less bright and more of an ivory over time. The additives needed to create that bright white may not work with a finer silk thread. Everything I can think of with really bright white are a heavier weight thread. That is just off the top of my head. I think I learned the white additive thing from Veritasium on YT years ago. Edit: no it was “Nighthawk in Light” on YT that I learned the white thing from.

A tie that’s brighter than your collar pulls eyes away from your face. That’s the wrong direction.

You don’t want people looking at your chest, you want them to pay attention to your speech and expression. Same with cuffs and shoes. Draw focus to hands and face. Not feet, unless you’re Michael Jackson.