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> PCB is basically a kludge, on many levels, from GUI through logical 
> organisation to integration with the rest of the tools etc etc etc.

Probably due to its ancient history.

> GUI appearance is awful. It covers significant percentage of the screen 
> with an poorly utilized area, so editing a PCB on my
> 1600x1200 monitor resembles loooking throgh a periscope.

Try the lesstif GUI instead of the gtk one (./configure
--with-gui=lesstif).  I designed it to maximize design area.

> It's alomost literally scotch-tapd together with guile etc.

There isn't a drop of guile in pcb...  perhaps you're referring to
gschem?