In reply to Chip Bennett.

You mean end users who prefer non-customizer themes over customizer themes?

There is a reason less then 25% of themes adopted the customizer in 3 years. End-users downloaded just as many CyberChimps themes in that time as Automattic customizer themes. There's absolutely no evidence or number that supports end users preferring customizer themes. With 18 themes we nearly had the same number of downloads as 60 Automattic themes. Our themes were more popular.

As the former owner of one of the largest theme shops on .org, we sold both non-customizer and customizer themes and the non-customizer themes outsold the customizer themes by nearly a factor of 3. Customizer themes do not sell as well as custom theme options and we sold singicantly less customizer themes by comparison.

End users prefer theme options to the customizer. I would have been more then happy to share this data had anyone bothered to consider it.