If they would use the latest chips 22nm then it would be a lot smaller but they use what currently is the most used and cheapest so they use 32nm.

Microsoft nailed the design. It really does like a all in one entertainment device. It's just a perfect balance.

Good point.

Is it sad that an image a redditor did as a joke, shopping a woodgrain over one side of the console, I thought actually made it look better?

I don't mean to suggest that it looks bad, but I actually liked the fake wood finish on the left-front of the console. Then again, I grew up in the age of fake wood electronic devices, so for me it was retro-sheik.

if this is a WiiU or PS4, will you feel the same way?

...i don't think you will...

You haven't seen the MB.  On the right-side of the MB, essentially the right-half of the console as you see it, is a giant empty space, which sits in the middle of it a small processor.  At least compared to the space around it.  The reason for that space?  Cooling.  The Xbox One not only employs a massive cooling fan, like the Xbox 360 S has, but a large heatsink and heat pipe system.

Here you go ;)

On serious note, as a gaming console I think it looks awful - as a media hub, I think it's passable

It looks like a cable box or a dvd player... it doesn't really stand out.

I like it too, it looks cool.

I wish consoles would look more...fun. The gamecube is a lovely console because it simply LOOKS like a good time :p