First of all let me just say it is nice of you to not be more impolite. Secondly I think you should trust him when he says:
> Sorting out the forum/category hierarchy and layout is actually a pretty complex set of loops to automate, as it involves checking depth and walking a tree of forums that could potentially be outside of the current scope.
My experience has been that people have embraced this style of forum and I have not had a single negative reaction so far (and I have asked them). So it might not be the forum software that is really the issue here.
You really only have three options here: Wait for it to be added, find another forum software or pay someone to write a patch.
