I must admit that I feel the same way.
I also can't stand the lack of single-sign-on.
Something that has been 'worked on to be fixed' for cough-cough..two years now..?

Anyway, the concept of something like brainstorm is good - but the implementatiom of it was rather horrendous.

I'd love a nice, front-end to it that displays, in an easy to read way, the idea and for you to vote on it.
Maybe even 'feature' some idea randomly on the front page, etc.

I looked at it and just tnought that it was for developers and moved on. It is certainly not being 'sold' very well if it wants to attract pure users