I've heard that, too.

I like how people say that this style of board is somehow confusing, and yet these same people post on all those PHP boards that have 10% post content and 90% extra crap around it like little bar charts and stars and statuses and buttons around every single post for ten different ways to contact the person and eight different social networks.

Basically I came to the conclusion a couple years back that these people are by and large idiots, drawn to shiny colors, and they'll come up with whatever non-sequitur reason they can to say why something that's not shiny and obnoxious is somehow bad.