In reply to David Anderson.

I don't know that I fully agree with you David. I'm a developer and always found the documentation to be top notch, for the most part. The react and block documentation is... well, it's getting there. But generally I find it among the best.

I guess my view on the entire subject is a bit different from most. I've never been a fan of "Themes" because far too often they try and cross into PlugIn territory. For example, a "Theme" for Real Estate seems silly to me. That's PlugIn territory because it implies functionality, not design. Change the theme and you lose functionality and that's ridiculous.

So to me, the whole evolution of commercial theme companies was never a good model. Right now we're seeing the very concept of themes as we know them disappearing and I think long term it's a good thing.

I build and sell commercial PlugIns and at one point we sold themes. Honestly, they were among our best sellers because people want complete solutions. We killed our themes a couple years ago and it killed our general sales, but that also allowed us to focus on our core VIP customers. This in turn helped finance the next set of versions for our suite of PlugIns.

So I get it, there's some good easy money in Themes and they draw in customers, especially the low hanging fruit. It's not easy moving away from that model and it's a costly transition. Most top notch Theme companies already know this, it's why companies like Woo Themes focused on acquiring, building or in Woo's case forking, a PlugIn to become their flagship product.

As for the WordPress.org directory, there's a rating and review system which does a pretty fine job of letting people know what's good and what's not. It's not perfect, but I personally find it effective as it is and think the "Theme" directory will whither while "Blocks" will begin to take it's place.

Things are bound to be a bit of a clustered up mess during this time of transition, but I've been working on the internet since before there was a web and this is just part of the life. It's constant change and there's always a clustered up mess. It's fun, keeps things exciting ;-)