I agree a bit with pagination... Sure there are awesome plugins for that, but I see all the time blogs that don't bother with that minimal effort and stick with stupid default next/previous setup. Not that complex pagination is desperately needed, but native definitely sucks.

And of course search is verrrrry strange creature in WP.

@Ipstenu

Default theme every year is supposedly a plan for future WP releases. Since 2010 just landed we will see in a year I guess. :)