Eh, yeah. I guess abhorrent is a bit much. I find it uninteresting and vaguely unpleasant, though.
I'd rather take fantasy over this setting in most cases, yeah. Also, Darklands is fantasy. Sure it's a pretty low fantasy but there's magic and dragons and kobolds.
edit: I originally read 'SSDD' as single-sided/double-density and wondered why floppy disks were getting involved. How old am I? Or perhaps how tired..