In reply to KTS915.

How about a WordPress where core isn’t so peculiar that I have to ensure that, before I start using a theme, I have to remove or disable over twenty different things?

Hi! What 20 things are you disabling, exactly? Why are you disabling them? Without this basic information, we cannot have any sort of meaningful discussion about how we can improve them, or why they might be bad for your particular use-case.

There's many things we all don't like. Putting our voices out there and explaining our problems is step 1. You say you're a writer. Can you write about it for us?