You have to keep in mind, that this site runs on a content management system, that has not been written by the owners of the site. And one cannot change a content management systems behaviour, look and feel on the fly.

I saw many sites built on top of Jamroom (the CMS) and they all have the same look & feel more or less. And people have the same issues everywhere Jamroom is used.

I do not really know something about the internals of Jamroom as I never set up or administrated a Jamroom site. But I think most of the stuff you talk about is a Jamroom issue.

Each content management system has it's limitations and flaws. I think we have a great site here. Allways space for improvements for sure. But I don't think it is really possible to get an "uncomplicated site" doine with all the features in a READYMADE CMS-SOLUTION. And who wants to code this site in a custom solution? This would take VERY much time and nobody throws in that ammount of work for free. As a softwaredeveloper and webdesigner, I wouldn't do this for free, how much ever I love this community.

Useability? From my point of view, this site is more than useable. It works for most things and the things that are great are larger in numer than the few flaws.

Allways place for improvements, everywhere. Nothing is 100% perfect.