Lack of new people is killing the backroom and the entire forum

[Tokugawa]

With the profile pic and avatar visible, the threads look ugly.

It's possible to turn one or both off, that's an individual choice.

Also, if I chose to see profile pics only, I see a whole lot of default profile pics, which means that everybody looks the same. It's confusing.

Agree, but that's easy to fix.

If I chose to see avatars only, those who use profile pic also all look the same.

Not true, excisting accounts are already different. People get a default by creating a new account.

I fail to see why not using what all other fora use is better

Not everything offered by forum software is good.

Having two sorts of avatars is confusing.

Users ask totally different things.

Edit: sorry mixed accounts, this is TosaInu