First, I'm not arguing over what you like or not like. It's the reasons what you give that bother me. For example, it's perfectly fine to say, I like the horizontal fields better; but it's not ok to say it takes less space when it's not. That's all.
Concerning NextGen "fully" cracked reason, that has nothing to do with being "clean." Just because you don't want to use it (for whatever reason) doesn't mean others doesn't. If you're bringing in the point of a display being "clean" or "professional", lets not restrict NextGen because of irrelevant reasons.
You mentioned the ability of Decent skin having options, but at the same time frown other skins for having too many options. Pretty much everything displayed by a modded skin or using default skin, can be changed (either via options or codes) If you don't think so, then you're not using that skin correctly or its full potential. Personally I really don't care what skins people like or use, but I do care if their reasoning doesn't jive.