You know, I have no idea what you are on about? Front-end, back-end, of what? The admin panel? I thought the admin panel IS the backend. So now we're going to have 'themes' that control the backend of the backend, in order to control the frontend of the backend which is supposed to look after the frontend? How is that user friendly?

All I want is a theme that allows me to customize things, and is easy to add suitable plugins to. The newish way of customizing most new themes is terrible for a lot of us end users. FWIW, I have yet to find a proper responsive theme that doesn't have some major issues with it. Its like the developers of these themes never actually have to sit down and use their own products to produce real sites that are expected to attract visitors and (heaven forbid) sell something from.