Is it just me or does everyone have poor visibility of the current tab?

I imagine that depends on the theme you're using. In my soft yellow theme, the current tab is very visible.

This has been bothering me since the launch of proton, their current designs paradigm

You can use userChrome.css to change the border color of the active tab. Here's what I use (credit)

.tab-background[selected] {
  border: 1px solid !important;
  border-color: lightgray !important;
}

yep, same here, I like the theme I am using, I am not changing it because of Firefox, instead I changed Firefox theme to dark (from default).