Those messages are ugly and have no relevance to
third party users of Wikipedia content.
They have relevance to Wikipedians and prospective
Wikipedians. I doubt they greatly annoy anyone else.
Some of them could certainly do with a little
prettifying, though.
We also do not have a problem with attracting
new editors as is so this is a solution in search
of a problem.
The existence of a problem is not a logical
prerequisite for the desire to improve a situation.
We can always use more editors.
Regards,
Haukur