It must be another case of where ugly is in the eye of the beholder. I tend to prefer things that look functional or utilitarian as opposed to faddish, flashy or whatever. I'm not into new and modern just for the sake of it. Notepad++ does all I need it to do, and I don't see the need to install a program that is 20 times the download size when I don't see any extra benefit it has that I want.