The point I was trying to make in the original post is that (as a businessman) I don't understand why Jelsoft doesn't take the opportunity to create a higher end product that integrates a number of the features users obviously want because they are willing to struggle through implementing hacks in order to provide them on their sites. I for one would be happy to pay more money for an integrated suite of features for a site built around a MySQL forum program like vB that I don't have to hack to make work. Supply, demand thing. That's all.
The thing is ncangler, we are a very very very small majority of the vBulletin user base.