In reply to nick6352683.

– Also, there is no such thing as “a theme flexible enough to gracefully support child themes”. Creating a child theme has nothing to do with the parent theme supporting child themes. I still have not met a theme that I could not create a child theme within 2 minutes.

Not to nit-pick too much, but it is very possible to create a parent theme where things will break (like fatal error break) when attempting to create a child theme for it. This is usually the result of improper use of get_stylesheet_directory().

Of course, we try to check those sorts of things before a theme goes live in the WordPress.org theme repository. :) If anyone's running into those sorts of issues from repository-hosted themes, the TRT needs to know so that we can do a better job catching it.