In reply to Elgoots.

@Elgoots, not all devs are equally invested in mastering css for their projects and that's fine. I'm also not saying that all devs using bootstrap don't know enough CSS. Not at all. I said that above as well.

If you're creating a distributed theme, you are designing something. If you let a framework dictate the specifics of your craft, its final shape, I think that *can* be a detriment. If you can't develop it without the framework, that too, *can* hint at underlying lack in care/skills/haste. Every framework can be used or abused.

You don't want to reinvent the wheel when solving the same problems. You do want to rely on what smarter people have already discovered. Of course. Those are design patterns. People good at their craft are aware of these patterns, or discover them through research. When you create a project, you use those design patterns, avoiding the 'reinvent the wheel' territority. When theme authors pick Bootstrap, they are inheriting a whole bunch of these patterns abritarirly without really knowing why those patterns were picked, or why all of them need to be in the particular project. They arrived on wholesale because the framework was chosen, not the other way around.

For a theme author creating distributed themes, I don't think it's unfair to have high standards, any theme might be used on many sites. Just like you'd expect high standards from products built by Apple, or when you order a meal at a michelin starred restaurant. You know the products there are created with an intense level of precision.

There's no reason for a distributed theme to have been created in such a hurry that a bulky framework needed to be used to make it easier/faster, i.e. the easy route. Nor would you like to know that a chef is serving premade microwave meals because they don't actually know how to make a dish from scratch, you'd always pick the chef that uses their craft. Sure maybe even the best chefs will pick a few premade components, but the core of their dish is going to be prepared with their input deciding all the specifics. You don't need the chef to have milked the cow for instance, doesn't matter who did that. You want the chef to have picked the milk from the right farm, used in it in the right proportions for the right part of the dish, to accomplish a specific experience in their dish.

For distributed themes, there's no reason to pick the microwave meal over the meal that was created by a Michelin-type theme author. I'm just saying, Bootstrap is becoming a hallmark feature of a microwave meal in the theme space. Cheap, fast to build with, but not made with the same love (craft ability), lacking in flavour(design) and maybe not as healthy(bulky, unwieldy).