I personally see nothing wrong with the dial and it does look good on a dark background, i use macabre and it looks great. I think "cheap" is a strong word and although i agree on some optional choices, i disagree with the word "cheap".
I do agree that i wish there were options regarding designs, only because i would like to have designs for holidays, like Christmas, new years, valentines, 4th of july, Halloween and so on.
But that is up to the dev and may be outside the scope of this plugin which would require a personal mod deal. I like this plugin very much.. Maybe some other choices are good but i am not saying it is needed, but it would be nice to have them.