No, but you might wanna leave something in forum feedback as that's just a few lines of CSS to change if Devastator agrees with you. Personally I'm with you - anything but very dark grey is silly for any website.
Some skins do have that sort of thing, but I'm not sure if they're still knocking about. You can use certain plugins to do that kind of thing for you too.
I think this grey background in the statuses is better than the white in the main forum posts but I don't know how that would look as affecting the whole site appearance.