That's a completely fair analysis of that page: the experience on that page is not great, and we realize that we're not presenting the value to a user who lands on that page in a compelling way. We need to work on improving pages like that, and I'm fine with devaluing those based around a quality metric.
But what about a page like this: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9727120. Would you classify this page in the same way as the category page you reference above?