Well spoken as someone that is interested in keeping things nice and neat in the back end. However, as users we find many things in VLC that make it superior to other players. And, no, it is not just the interface. Well, I take it back. I don't know enough about gstreamer and other back end libraries to say for sure. Maybe the capabilities have already been created and no interface for them exist yet. But, for example, some of the things I enjoy about VLC, besides being able to play just about anything I throw at it very well, are things like being able to advance video frame by frame, being able to synchronize audio and video on files where they are not, etc. So, until other, more kosher, players match VLC in quality and features, you'll have to forgive the users for rejoicing about its availability.