Well, I think what bugs me the most are the generic answers from Envato, it reminds me of the "good" old days when I was working in a multinational company :) . Sadly it seems I have to go back there :(. Yes, you can't blame them, they can't just say, yes we're collapsing, you'd better jump ship now than later.

I do not believe the Envato market is growing, in fact I do believe that the whole WP market is experiencing a decline. The main reason: more and more SaaS business shows up for specific niche (portfolio, blogging, e-commerce). This is not necessarily a bad thing, actually it's a good thing, only a small percentage of dev teams would be able (or have the means) to work/implement complex systems, it will practically wipe out the middle man (those who were buying themes/plugins & resell) and the end user will have a better experience, not worrying about updates, conflicts, hosting (even if he pays more and it's charge / month).