I have never had more fun with customizing the theme of a cms so much as what I had with drupal yday night the garland theme is not only a pleasant sight but damn easy to hack I hacked the theme to modify it it to a design I had done using yahoo grids in 15 mins that is quick even for a slow coder like me. Also the improvements done using the end user in mind is good like the logs are broken down, the navigation system is not cluttered like the present drupal 4 branch the web based installer might be big for end users with no coding skills but for people like me it is just something that saves a few minutes and saves u from editing a text file.
Once all the modules are upgraded from 4 branch to 5 it would e great and I see lot of new end users even the non tech lot having fun with drupal 5.
I hav to get some time from my work to write a module for drupal 5 asap. Since the theming is freakishly easy now I didn