In reply to Ruairi Phelan.

For sure, theme authors face this design issue of not wanting to restrict their users. If you're highlighting Bootstrap as a selling point, you want to make it easy for users to take advantage of that framework.

I just wonder if Bootstrap is a selling point for most customers and whether it should be if it is. Because it is the opposite of what I'd come to expect of a designer who has undergone a very deliberate design process where every line of css has earned its way in for a particular reason. With bootstrap it is more likely that the css and html (markup) is driven by the framework, it's an entirely different process of creating a theme. If a designer is trying to take shortcuts by using Bootstrap, I'd rather pick a theme author who uses their craft fully.

I'm not against shortcuts btw, I love preprocessors, Bootstrap's code is of a high standard, mixins are wonderful and so forth. I just expect that serious designers/theme authors use their craft to build their themes in a deliberate way and not have the end product so tainted by the shortcuts they used.