Horrendous crap is an exaggeration. SC stages were souly known for the DETAIL in everything and everything you could barley see. SC3 supports this greatly.
This stage looked heavenly good and from the other side it was even better. Good enough to actually want to see the cutscenes again to wonder what you could make out. The new stages most obvious in 4, lack the detail and extra little additions that made the stages look so realistic.
The fact that you could knock the paintings down shows detail with realism, if you could follow someone after ring out like in DOA (indoor stages) this would have been so much better, seeing the balcony crumble in the background.
Tekken aswell had breath taking imagry. in comparison SC5's stages look rather plain. They need more indoor stages personally.