wallpaper should be outlawed

We've started to refinish our bathroom now, and it has served as a none-too-friendly reminder of how much I hate wallpaper. Although the previous owners managed to lay down several coats of paint on top of it in a mock textured style, the edges were still coming up and my toddler even pulled a strip off one day.

Wallpaper is such a pain to work with. Putting it on is no easy task,and taking it off is three times as bad. I can't believe that they still sell it. Even though we rented a steamer, it is still pulling the top layer of paper off of the drywall, so I'm going to have to figure out how to re-texture the walls. Right now, they are smooth, but for the newly crated "scars" from the wallpaper that we removed. I looked into that spray texture stuff, but it is ridiculously expensive for the amount of coverage it provides. You need like a dozen cans to cover a decent sized wall. We also tried the little granules that you add to the paint bucket and although they did manage to hide most of the blemishes, you need to apply several coats on top of it to get them to not rub off with the brush of a hand.

There really needs to be a cheaper and easier way to repair drywall surfaces.