Well, I rather like the upgraded version of the game now too, not simply because D/P is "better" than R/S but because it gives me a chance to go over my now year-old designs, and sometimes revamping can be much more rewarding, as you really can see the amount of improvement over a year.
I wouldn't call the community "messed up" but they're certainly not paradigms of intelligence nor taste. (and if you think PC is bad, wait until you see Acanthite's fora: blind fools, the lot of them.) But, yeah, it's all in the screenshots, which is just a shame since it means that games like Nebula get all the attention which they arguably don't deserve.
...But I'm an optimist, and believe firmly that the good developers will triumph in the end, as was done with Raptor and what we hope to do with Uranium, and usher in a new era of game dev where people model after our success rather than after failed but glamorous projects, which is what's being done now.