No, you're not the only one. It's awful.

Needs some gloss, monotone finish and its shaped changed into a rectangle with beveled edges.

Haha, well I'm no industrial designer, so who knows what it ought to look like... but if it looks like this image, you can be sure I won't ever have one sitting next to my TV.

I'm not really interested at this point anyway, but an ugly hardware design virtually seals the deal.