Really, Let's see those stats Dean . There's been plenty of people who find the styles terrible. Posted on this forum will alert you to that so pulling that one out isn't what I call. A fact? Unless you know something I don't and to be fair, the styles are blinding to the eye. The red, green and purple styles are not easy on the eyes. Anyway, I'm not really fussed now, I'll just settle for the generic blue as I only posted because the style selector is easy accessible now and believe that we should be graced with styles easy on your eyes with colour usage taken in mind.
I created a custom style within a night, so it's not hard work to create appropriate gradients with the appropriate colour usage esp to a generic default style with no slicing required (bar the header area).
As for the new options, great stuff, It's the way forward (like I've stated) the styles make the efforts look bad imo. The trouble is, you settle for mediocre when you can have something far better with the resources at hand.
Like I said, There's room for improvements or atleast give the community one style that isn't blinding so they have one to select over the other dazzling styles.
As I keep saying on vBulletin.com to those who keep criticisng the plans for vB4, it's always the same people yapping as if they are the majority and they are representative of the large customer base. Yet, ironically there are thousands of other customers who are perfectly happy who have no reason to complain.
So... find me these hundreds of other people that don't like the styles shelley. Show me the other threads with people complaining. Prove you are the majority.