I don’t like the way WP looks either. On my laptop the fonts were way to big. I took it upon myself to edit the style sheets and change the look. Such as the annoying 2px padding around the drop down list. I found some “plan” things hard to deal with. Like the fact that the buttons that “do” things are not a different color from general text fields. Also I edited the links colors as they were hard to see.. I also set the text of my “blog this!” button to a different color as I kept hitting the “preview” instead.
I think WP could use a little more TLC when it comes to it’s look. I don’t mean heavy slow graphics. But black and white is a little bit boring and it doesn’t set the fields that need to be noticed apart.