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> I've felt for a while this could be popular if it had a modern GUI.

I gotta say, the screenshots showing what looks like Motif (or Lesstif) widgets makes it more appealing to me, not less.

I can actually tell apart the different widgets on screen, and determine what is a button and what is not.

The two main graphical applications, MGED and Archer, are both Tcl/Tk so what you're seeing is Tk. Newer GUI work in development is Qt-based.

Based on the screenshots, it looks like the GUI uses native OS widgets, which is IMHO a good thing.