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You have a valid point that most epub engines are broken in some way or another (some more than others). However, there's "simply broken" and then there's "doesn't display exactly the way you want", and the two are extremely different. Your examples show "simply broken" -- ignored bold text (though I wonder if that's an encoding issue on your end, as I'm pretty sure ADE understands basic formatting concepts like "bold"), poor table rendering, etc. Missing colors IMHO fall into the latter category, and that's just something you have to deal with. Ebooks give the reader control, and authors/editors/typesetters will have to get over having pixel-perfect control over their books just as magazine editors had to learn to embrace the ambiguities of HTML or die from obsolescence.
I could live without the colors (and would prefer not to have them, even), so long as core rendering functionality like tables and bold were handled properly.
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