Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Personally I think the default GForum templates are nice, clearly you don't, but there's always going to be someone who doesn't like them as everyones tastes are different. It would be impossible for GT to come up with a set of templates that everyone thought were perfect so thats why all products are template based and use globals so every license holder can customize their copy just the way they want it. Generally people don't want to use the default design anyway.
wht uses a fairly standard version of vbulletin and I personally find calendars a waste of time and thats pretty much all it has over GForum except the php pre-conception.
Personally I think the default GForum templates are nice, clearly you don't, but there's always going to be someone who doesn't like them as everyones tastes are different. It would be impossible for GT to come up with a set of templates that everyone thought were perfect so thats why all products are template based and use globals so every license holder can customize their copy just the way they want it. Generally people don't want to use the default design anyway.
wht uses a fairly standard version of vbulletin and I personally find calendars a waste of time and thats pretty much all it has over GForum except the php pre-conception.