Okay, so, I admit to a lack of understanding of the necessity of a lot of what this Theme implements. It's doing a lot of URL rewriting that serves absolutely no real purpose (changing /wp-content/uploads/ to /assets/, /wp-content/plugins/ to /plugins/, static Theme resources from /wp-content/themes/css/ and /wp-content/themes/js/ to /css/ and /js/, etc.); it considers add_theme_support( 'automatic-feed-links' ) to be "dirty" and instead hard-codes feed links in header.php. It uses add_object_page() (huh?!?) instead of add_theme_page(), registers multiple settings rather than a single options-array DB entry, and appears to perform no validation/sanitization of Theme Settings on input or escaping of Theme Settings on output.

I like the idea of rock-solid HTML5-based Themes, but this one seems to be less focused on solid WordPress-Theme things, and more focused on non-Theme things.