I appreciate you taking the time to write up this post and ask some tough questions. I have been waiting on comments and the thoughts of theme authors since the initial post was written and as of yet there have been no authors commenting to tell us how useful this would be for them of what they may want to use it for. I look forward to seeing what they have to say in the comments here.

Their silence makes me feel like they are indifferent to the idea where as there have been some quite vocal messages claiming this to be a bad idea or to be opening a can of worms ripe for abuse.

I only have insight from direct messages and conversations I have had with authors over the years - a few of which have been recently. Those discussions make me feel like they would like to have this ability but it is hard to guage the overall feelings without discussions like the one we had in the #ThemeReview slack room.

I want to think that primarily the purpose of a theme page is to use for documentations. Some themes have support threads for the same issue frequently that might be slowed by having the documentation right in the dashboard in a place authors are able to discover it easier.

What I want is to find ways for themes to take more of the limelight without going overboard to the point where it is a distraction. The idea of having a top level page fells like one way we can do that.