People hate change... I find the old menu system was way easier to use... Colors will be changeable soon for the new menu system. There will also be 2 other themes added... One with a side menu and the other with a simple basic theme...
i like the new layout acctually...
and i hate change...
so much in fact that i haven't changed my underwear since i was 16.
what i think would really rock in terms of layout and design would be to have the top and bottom menus as well as the post reply box locked in place so that they always remain at the top and bottom of your screen when scrolling through threads so you can jump around, search or check your profile without having to scroll up and down the page.
my 2 cents.
like em or lump em...
I could make something like that might take a little time... I alredy made an ajax version where only the center menu changer (still scrolling but the top and bottom menus never reload) but blah... Does not work in anything but firefox 3.0...