In reply to Matt Mullenweg.

To an extent, I agree with Matt. There's nothing wrong with having a Featured Themes list, curated by a single person. Not everything is handled best "by committee" or "by algo".

Could also be a guest slot. With a weekly Featured/Favorite Theme by someone from the WordPress community. New person each week – and a rule that the same theme can't be repeatedly mentioned. So if last week's theme was f.e. Astra – then there can't be another person recommending Astra the following week. Just a matter of juggling the featured guests in a meaningful way.

But all in all, the Popular and Latest views are quite sufficient, along with the Feature Filter. The latter could be beefed-up / refined a bit, though.