In reply to Douglas Becker.

Hey Douglas,

Thanks for your thoughts. As you mentioned, themes are typically not optimized heavily out of the box. There are some things we can do on our end, but providing minimized assets, asynchronously loading assets, and caching are not optimizations that can be provided out of the box, and for good reason. These are optimizations reserved for each developer to choose how they to implement them on their own sites.

There are countless articles that explain why chasing a PageSpeed score isn't the best way to approach optimization. That said, we're definitely committed to ongoing optimization and will continue to make improvements as we find them.