I don't understand the problem really. The software for treverchan totally isn't innovative or anything but it works fine as a 4chan clone and that's what it was meant to be - a 2chan imageboard minus the 4chan members.

Overly moderatation, and anime board topics arn't the software's faults, but ya you won't find many innovative imageboards in use. Even though there's been alot of neat ideas for some especially some of the free japanese software if you've tried it out.

Now days every kid and his dog knows PHP and MySQL so its just a matter of someone throwing out ideas and someone else sitting down and coding shit.