In reply to Andrew.

There is definitely a large WordPress user segment that wants a one-click, full-import solution. I'm glad you brought this up because it is one of the few comments that touches on a real business opportunity.

To me, or a savvy theme business owner, that looks more like an opportunity than a barrier. Instead of patterns being the whole solution, they become part of it.

If I'm a business owner, I'm directing my dev team to start building one-click imports for a full site. Within these imports are the patterns themselves. The user doesn't need to know they are patterns from the start. They just click a button and watch the magic happen. They get their home, about, portfolio, etc. pages easily.

Then, User X comes along a month later and wants to "recreate that portfolio demo page" on another page. That's when you introduce them to the pattern concept. Walk them through the process of clicking on the Portfolio pattern that you'd already built and wrapped into the demo importer. It's sort of the best of both worlds.

It's not like theme authors haven't already been doing demo imports. Many of them already have the scripts/libraries for doing this. Patterns just add another arrow in their quiver, so to speak.

And, I'd love to see different user-experience takes ("flow") on handling this too.