Jamie I respect your enthusiasm, as I once 'loved' Threads above all others as well.
But when Groupee decided to hang its 'years long' users as well as the newest ones out to dry - they slowly built up a lot of anger toward Infopop and/or Groupee. This was not an overnight occurrance.
Go to ubbcentral.com and look at the boards, especially at the inactivity. Forums were heavily moderated, posts deleted, people banned, etc etc - all for ASKING for support.
While I share the same sentiment in that UBB7 is hopefully a great product and better than its predecessors...I can also say I have gone from 5 sites with UBBThreads, down to one. And that is completely because of Groupee.