Okay, I'm with others here - what is Chris on this time?

I can see three complaints:

1. Ugly UI (fine.)
2. Lack of persistence of audio interface settings.
Actually, two comments here on that -- first, of course, you can set this as a command-line argument, which to me is the safest way to go. But secondly, maybe there's a reason Pd can't persist audio settings between sessions? No idea. Anyway, at best, his comment here is misleading.
3. "Crashes"

Crashes ... where?

As near as I can tell, this entire rant is about the stability of vst~. (Is vst~ even part of Vanilla?)

Peter