I agree! Part of me wants to say 'make them bigger', but I'm not sure if that would be better or not. Why don't they post up various things like a variety smilies and get feedback? Right now they seem to be making changes and responding to most vocal people i.e. right now it almost seems there is an incentive to post on vb.com to voice input over and over.
Just remember, guys, it's still not final, even now. They never intended the last version of the theme to be final. It's a WIP until they release the software, probably at least until RC.
i wonder why they didn't exploit the ideas shown on the first screenshots in developer's blog? i liked the idea of fluent two-line forumbit a lot but i see in the current skin they're using old-style table-like forumbit that looks similar to the ip.board's skin. i tried to replicate that fluent design and it looked so promising i decided that i'll redo the whole skin. i guess i'll do it with tables vb3-like, no need to overhaul everything like they did in vb4.