As for bora, it doesn't suck for me.. it works perfectly fine, there are no glaring bugs that affect me that would be fixed in Diablo. I'll update at some point, but there's no hurry really.
When it comes to auto-refreshing, I'm of the opinion that it should _always_ be the user's decision to enable or disable those kind of things - the user must always be in control over what the device does on the network. I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to fix that for myself, but for the more common user it may not be as easy.