I've heard the same thing Kent. But then I've also heard that Genesi has a special contract with Mr. Stuntz so that their changes don't go back into the same source tree.
This is quite unfortunate as the only people suffering here are the Amiga (and Amiga-like such as AROS, etc) community. It is most unfair to the registered users of MUI. They (if registered) paid for the latest and greatest MUI and shouldn't be limited because Hyperion or Genesi are the company to make/implement a "cool new feature" and, IMO, if Genesi has access to the source tree that Hyperion is commiting their changes to, so should Hyperion have access to the changes Genesi makes to the MUI source tree.
As for gradients in the interface themselves, I'm not much of a fan since they are only glitz at the expense of CPU cycles better used for important tasks. Regardless of my opinion of gradients, I still think this is sad, if true, that registered MUI users who use MUI under anything but Peg won't see those gradients if they so choose to use them.
