The removed styles were being overwritten in all cases by components underneath, but caused problems for me when I was trying to add community drawer.

Run web app, checked that removing these styles makes no difference in inbox and in settings.

1. checked in all files that import left-layout-aside.css which of them use the container style, and container style from left-layout-aside.css is only used in left-layout-aside.js
2. container style is used on the <aside> element, and the styles I removed concern its foreground objects and svgs, so I check its children:
3. its children are CommunityPicker, SettingsSwitcher, AppSwitcher
4. CommunityPicker: the outer div returned from community picker has a style that overrides svgs colours and padding. CommunityPicker has no other foreground objects than the two svgs: inbox and setting icons. So the styles I removed don’t concern CommunityPicker.
5. SettingsSwitcher displays two items inside of the NavigationPanel. The active item gets colour from NavigationPanel. And the non-active tab gets its colour in SettingsSwitcher:

https://github.com/CommE2E/comm/blob/master/web/sidebar/settings-switcher.react.js#L26
https://github.com/CommE2E/comm/blob/master/web/sidebar/settings-switcher.react.js#L45
https://github.com/CommE2E/comm/blob/master/web/sidebar/left-layout-aside.css#L28

6. AppSwitcher: displays three items, and does the same thing as SettingsSwitcher
7. There are no deeper nested children in any of those three children of the <aside> element.