In reply to needforname.

Valid points. If people keep finding stuff they don't like, they could go crazy theme shopping, when every theme's sales language and promises are almost identical. :) And at the risk of sounding alarmist, it may send them away from WP. I used a whole bunch of systems before using WP, so I know there's a big world out there.

On the other hand, there's a simple engineering principle that pervades much of this: the more features you put into a product, the more points of failure there may be. For some reason, people don't accept or grasp this.

To a degree, the theme developers are simply responding to the permanent "arms race" of features that customers are demanding. So quality will suffer, especially if people aren't willing to pay for increased quality.