J3r3my, you're an idiot.
You don't like the name, and you condemn it? Have you even TRIED Opera 8? I read something on Opera the other day. It went something along the lines of:
FireFox appeals to the simpleton user, because it presents a very IE type of browsing (with obvious improvements). There are, of course, extensions for FireFox that make it a great browser. However, many users don't even discover these extensions, prefering to stick with the simple version.
Opera, on the other, comes with all the nessecary extensions built-in: in previous versions, it confused the simple user with a multitude of toolbars and the like. Once again, they were either reluctant, or not skilled enough to simple dive in and tweak Opera, which is suprisingly simple to do. Opera 8 has attempted to solve that problem with a cleaner, pre-loaded look.
So J3r3my, I don't understand why you don't like it's "look": it can so easily be changed. How about you try it and see instead of condeming it for pointless reasons?