[vincnetas]

"Functional BUT utilitarian" ?

You mean "Functional AND utilitarian" because for me these both are very welcome features.

[lostcolony]

The conjunction here is purely to taste, since utilitarian implies functional, as well as not particularly attractive; both are correct (as would just 'utilitarian', since it's not a loss of information, implying as it does the functional aspect).

[andy_ppp]

I read that comment less literally and more like “they just about work for their function, but damn they ugly” :-)

[lostcolony]

Sure, but do you interpret "functional and utilitarian" as meaning anything different? Utilitarian tends to imply functional + ugly.