The vcash dev community has already solved the ugly ui problem you mention:

Here is a very pretty electron based GUI for VCash here (written by the community):
https://github.com/whphhg/vcash-electron

Here is the wxWidgets port of VCash that was done in a weekend by one of the members in slack:
https://github.com/kryptRichards/wxVcashGUI

and someone in the slack is working on porting the C++ library to work in javascript using nbind and emscripten
https://github.com/charto/nbind

Plenty of uses for a low footprint instant transaction technology as per:
https://v.cash/forum/threads/thin-client-support.316/#post-7247

Seems like lots of development is happening with VCash.