The point of the comment above is that "polishing" for visual reasons does not necessarily lend to something that is functional, and in many cases works to the disadvantage. The fact that it may give your designer friends a seizure is the quintessence of the problem here--designers are indexing the problem here in reverse: what people want is something that is functional, not something that is built simply for aesthetic reasons.
To me: Sense of hierarchy is off, accessibility is meh, there's an enormity of information per page, there's poor use of color and spacing... it could be worse but I can imagine this site giving my designer friends a seizure.