You mix up so many definitions that none of them separate and clarify what you do and why. I got it that it was fanmade, what else? Your debating form & function in a fiction where both have no meaning, as appearance is a somatical significant psychological effect. Designers make choices, not problems, and this is the nirvana-bias; you create a new Nirvana for Pinegrow users, yet the result is a decline of what once was a trustworthy face and workhorse. It looks like slick, but that’s the problem to me. And good design is user-facing, not reinventing the face users know.