It may be "no buts" but it's freeware after all, and once you master it the looks are less than a problem- in fact for me the new double window UI is not that useful, I always sized it on the right part of the screen with "always on top" ticked on, and fired then a dual pane filemanager, which took the left part of the screen and allowed easy drag+drop for any sort of compilations.
The program is almost flawless, what needs to be resolved is some CDRDAO bugs, but this is not really jamieo's task (although at the "private" beta section on BAAO forum you can also find and test some hacked CDRDAO versions, and see if they make the day (or the coasters...) for you.