User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-3450419-20111001120148/@comment-655-20111002170333

If the message wall could be made to look like anything (probably using a MediaWiki: page for configuration, though, not a template), we would still be better off by having it as a site-wide option (vs. keeping old-style talk pages).

I think there have been enough comments to show that the concern is not just about looks - for example, many people do not share your opinion of storing discussions as 1 page/message being a better implementation than the current 1 page overall, or the "compromise solution" 1 page/discussion (which can already be achieved using one of several available forum implementations (example: ).