I'm with nhawk I really do not think it will change mainly because the owners IB are not interested in customer service and its a real shame because vBulletin used to be pretty awesome before those people took over.
Just under a year ago I sorted out this forum for them: www.hdherd.com
They are still on 5.0.5 because it's a lot of work to upgrade them and I've been waiting for the "right" version because it's too much work to keep doing it every release.
I'm thinking that 5.1.5 might be the one I upgrade them to.
That forum works well in the real world, and looks good too. Without sounding too dramatic, I saved it from oblivion and now it's growing again like it used to be.
It'll be fantastic when I get it onto 5.1.5 or maybe 5.1.6 if the notification refactor makes it in. It'll go faster and most of my manual fixes and workarounds can come out. The biggest challenge will be maintaining the styling.