I concur. Why is the state of human interface design so utterly deplorable?
With great hesitation, I downloaded the version 2 of Skitch. Mistake. "Spiffy" interface = hard to use.
Impossible to not have shadow on font (and, no surprise, no font choice at all).
Really basic stuff.
And yes, I do know that it's "not Paintbrush". But it's barely a drawing program. Sigh. Back to the drawing board. And replacing V2 with v1.