Hitting every branch of the ugly tree on the way down

I let my paid LJ account lapse this week and decided not to renew because frankly, the platform has been so unstable over the past year that I'm not entirely sure there's going to be a LiveJournal after the next six months or so. But now that I have no paid account, I can't override the default comment page style on my journal with my own style. What the HELL is LJ smoking and why does their site look like crap now? All the text is flush with the left margin, which makes it near impossible to read easily. All the white space is ugly too, but at least it doesn't interfere with readability. Is this their way of getting more paid accounts? Make the default so ugly you can't stand it anymore and pony up just to get something that looks halfway decent?

I may need to break down and install Stylish or something. Ugh.