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Open source software is not necessarily trying to win a beauty contest, and the number of copies used (or not) doesn't often mean extra income for the programmer. As long as the software is effective and does what its users want it to do, who cares if it may be ugly.

If it really upsets you, then spend the time and effort to improve it yourself.

This point is taken up better in the essay "Linux is not Windows" which explains that the purpose of Windows is to make money for Microsoft where open-source software's purpose is to be useful for its users. - http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm