Hmmm... Couple of things;

Not worth it, you say and I tend to agree. It's more a "proof of concept" than anything else, as the repo's are as good as empty.

Grey scale: That is true but I think it was intended like that, in order to encourage users of Enlightenment to create their own themes. I downloaded the grunge theme, just to name one that I liked, and I can't say it's ugly nor grey scale See attachments for screenshots of mine.
To download themes, have a look at
http://e17-stuff.org/index.php?xcontentmode=7000

All distorted: What is distorted? You don't have the correct fonts, or? If that's the case, make sure you
from your chroot prompt. Should be readable.

What parts exactly are inresponsive? For me it's the fastest of the three that were offered in this thread. So I can't help but wonder why you would say that.