Yep, but to avoid misunderstandings:

I didn't want to criticize the infrastructure or formulate feature requests.

The thread is RFC and I honestly think that automatic categories are easier than manual tagging and the involved coordination and discussion.

IOW was meant as a helpful suggestion nothing else.

update

And my first project if I found the time would be to open the code for pluggable frontends, such that others could easily provide different addons to change the look and feel. (Themes++)

Like that bootstrap design from Tobyink.