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I was thinking that also. I do see a lot of smaller forums that stick with the stock XenForo theme. It's not a bad theme, but I feel the theme does need some small amount of customization to make it memorable. At least in my mind, it could be a stylized logo with just a few matching display elements that make a forum stick in my mind.
As for similar forum topics, a Google search will quickly sort that out. And aside from VerticalScope's modified format, it's not too difficult to tell which of those runs XenForo.
I have a site. check my sig. I went halfway between xenforo's look and our previous PHPBB forum's look, and added some easier navigation.
All work was done in a single .css file that override's Xenforo's since the themeing engine was not flexible enough for some modifications we needed. With that, you could achieve a much more radical redesign if you know CSS well.