Personally my view is that its sad that the gods and the pmdevils appear to be following Fords motto: "you can have any colour you like so long as its the colour I like." Id rather them say "you can have any feature you can write so long as it doesn't impact the overall site experience."
You know what would be cool? If, some how, this website would to subscribe to some set of philosophy, where anyone could just download the source code, and look at it, or learn from it or even write helpful patches for it. Perhaps you could give this philosophy a name, maybe free, or open something.
Oh well.
