Very interesting!
I don't think it is bad at all that it "looks like LabVIEW".
Suppose he had a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet up on the screen, most people wouldn't care that it looked like "Microsoft". (Though I'm sure some people who hate MS might.)
While Microsoft's look and feel as become the standard for office applications, there is nothing wrong with LabVIEW becoming the standard for the look and feel of these kinds of applications.