In reply to Keith Davis.

I agree with Ryan on this one. Some times it is not just about updates, premium themes are insanely boated nowadays that it is really hard to make some tweaks and suit it according to our needs. Premium themes (a majority of them) are trying to be the all in one solution.

Themes are just supposed to be a skeletal structure for the site. But when a theme incorporates things like post reading time, view counter, custom galleries, custom registration pages, visual page builders and all they are suffocating the end users and making future customizations cumbersome.