Colours cannot have charisma. You can like the new look or not but I don't think this site will maintain a good reputation by continuing to use an old version of the vBulletin software when other vBulletin sites continue to introduce new features. For example, the New Posts feature is extremely useful for those of us who visit looking for questions to answer. My main issue with the site at the moment is that pages are very slow to load. I'm assuming that that will be fixed in time because other vBulletin 4.x sites don't have this problem.