[Princeton]

My question is, what are you guys looking for? Is all the CSS stripped out really what you mean when you say "clean"? To my eyes, the default, and default inspired skins are really the barest bones you can get when it comes to styling. Developers do it because they're more interested in getting the software to you than the graphics, and they know you going to customize it 99% of the time anyway. Coders do it with their sites because, and this is just my theory, because they're not really into graphic design to greater or lesser degrees. So how much "cleaner" can a site be than default? Plain white on black with a couple of colors?

sorry, but default is not "cleaner"

what they are after is usability

When you visit a site what's your main objective?

to learn or to be entertained - right?

you can't do this if the font is too small
you can't do this if no contrast exists
you can't do this if the UI is hard to learn

i can go on but you get the idea

the best design is one that targets all ages - one shouldn't need to offer hundreds of styles for their members