Between an ugly, good-sounding speaker and a beautiful, bad-sounding speaker, I'll take the ugly one. I am a function over form kind-a-guy. I do appreciate form though and if I can have both, so much the better.

I do have minimum standards on aesthetics though. No matter how good these sound, they'd never find a place in my abode.

https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/649464708-ugly-speakers-dahlquist-dq10/

House of the Rising Sone
Out in the mid or far field
Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated