Indeed. "Abomination" is the perfect word to describe this crap.
I also like dark themes because if find them easy on my eyes, but qogir-dark (or something similar) is just two mouse clicks away. And I still think a light panel is probably a better choice for a default panel, even though I don't personally like light themes.
It depends on how you define "working" - your definition seems to be "nothing is working unless it is exactly as I want it to be; everything else is broken".
I didn't like the default theme in Salix 14.2 much; instead of complaining or demanding the default theme to be what I want it to be, I just modified it to my liking. I will do the same in Salix 15 (in fact, I already did that). Where is the big deal? And even if you don't want to get into the "trouble" of modifying a theme yourself, there are literally thousands of themes out there. You have choices, and that's how GNU/Linux works.
However, judging from what I read, I can easily conclude you will think all the themes out there are "broken" - and even if you make your own themes you probably won't like them either.
Honestly, why people are so keen on specific themes, anyway? The important part is to just make sure rock-solid stability is there, as it is in Salix 14.2. The rest is... well, details (although I understand even those details can be a time consuming headache to developers). On that note I replaced many of the packages I compiled myself since alpha2 with the ones that are now available in Salix 15 repos - and they work very well (there are still a few that are missing so I will have to either ask for them to be included or I will just use an auxiliary personal repo).