this looks like a Services Request more than a discussion on usability...

btw, i think that it all depend on styles designers to what they will build as a display on the base of the default style provided with any system, not only vBulletin (VBB is for Versatile Bulletin Board not vBulletin!)

if you use the default style of any board, like phpBB, uBB, OpenBB, IPB etc, you will all see the same content, displayed similarily... this is a default template, not a forced to use style... if you're not ready to pay for a designer to create a look, you can use that default,... and usually, it's coder's point of view, not client... client is flexible, client can make anything from this tempalte when they have a solid editor like the one of vBulletin...

--nexia, W3C compliant developper!