Erdős problem 762

The cochromatic number of $G$, denoted by $\zeta(G)$, is the minimum number of colours needed to colour the vertices of $G$ such that each colour class induces either a complete graph or empty graph.

Is it true that if $G$ has no $K_5$ and $\zeta(G)\geq 4$ then $\chi(G) \leq \zeta(G)+2$?

This has been disproved by Steiner [St24b], who constructed a graph $G$ with $\omega(G)=4$, $\zeta(G)=4$, and $\chi(G)=7$.