Mybb community, very immature.

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(06-09-2010 05:12 AM)MattF Wrote:  Not necessarily. Anyone who does any coding at most levels would most likely prefer a bug free, (as much as humanly possible), version. There are more and more site admins actually taking to the coding side of things these days, (either through necessity or pure choice), so that they can modify their boards themselves. They are more likely to appreciate a solid system rather than the all singing all dancing version, especially if mods/plugins follow to add the extra functionality.

Which, unfortunately, from what I've seen, is a small minority.
Even if there is quite a few of these, they certainly aren't very prominent in the community most of the time, since they never seek support, they never show up.  And thus, what people see is those newbs promoting something that's all full of bells and whistles.
Another issue is that larger sites aren't always directed by people who can code.  In fact, they're most likely run by people who can market their site, rather than code it.  Personally, I'd go for the more marketed community than one which is really customised.  So this means that larger sites may be running systems which aren't coded up so nicely, as long as it works reasonably well.
In the end, the devs need to make compromises.