[Tomte]

Moodle is pretty flexible. I'm currently enrolled in a university, in two departments, and both between departments and between courses within a department there are huge differences in presentation, structure and kinds of learning items.

People simply dislike their course web site and conclude "it's Moodle". Most of the time it's not, but just how their lecturers are using Moodle. Every alternative will be the same, just with much fewer possibilities (at least in the beginning).