In reply to Ryan Hellyer.

As Jeff Nolan said below these lines, "we tend to want to WordPress’ify everything even if it doesn’t make sense sometimes". And yes, that's what I think is happenning with HostPress.

If Dan Griffiths is a web designer and wants a more beautiful cPanel, he should apply for a job in the UI division of cPanel and help beautify it from within. From my 10 years of experience using cPanel, I know several techs and engineers from cPanel (even the astounding David Grega, RIP, http://goo.gl/ntjJZf ) and can assure you they are very cool guys and if you have a neat proposal to make cPanel more easy to use to the standard end user, I'm sure the job is almost granted since they are always looking for the continuous enhancement of their product.

Anyway, I, as a cPanel and WordPress power user can tell that cPanel have done an amazing job with their new template Paper Lantern, revamping their UI after keeping it untouched for almost 7 years. I have implemented it for several customers who aren't techie geeks and they can also tell that that theme made them relight the fire and fall in love again with cPanel.