I have always liked the wharf but people did leave it because it was big and clunky. It takes a lot of guts to say that you are willing to have a 64 pixel wide bar somewhere. Most themes now-a-days are around 20...so 3 times that is def. out of the question.

The wharf never was a "hookable" module. Applets needed to be written to exist specifically in a 64x64 square and many were. There are probably over 100 modules that were written to exist in a wharf alone. We had remote controls and tvs and everything you could ever want.

And your second question is still mute because a wharf can't hook anything. You are grouping Wharfs and LSBoxes into a group that doesn't exist. They are two completely different modules with completely different intents.