In reply to Vlad.

Thanks Vlad sometimes comments need to be to the extreme to "cut through". My analogies weren't so much comparing "apples to apples" but just to give you guys concrete or solid examples from other industries that are highly successful and most importantly "sustainable". Also to let the community know I will not ever pay that for a WordPress theme. I do like however how Themeforest is limiting support to 6 months and developers being able to charge more for the support and renewing support - I think that is where the $$ is. It also makes sense to me because I rarely use the support because I have the education - but there are a lot of hobbyists and mamma and pops that would love and pay for the extra support. But again for Theme pricing for an "out-of-the-box" product. I just won't spend that much and I know there are thousands of other freelancers that would agree with me.

My move to WordPress 8 years ago as freelancer was solely because it was the best product for my bottom-line both for out-of-pocket costs and low in overhead and resources to implement (administration however was and still is a pitfall of WordPress). At that time there were many other choices, WordPress was in the lead but the race for CMS frameworks was much closer.

And now there still is a lot of competition for WordPress and I will continue to use WordPress and support the community as long as it is affordable for me to use. If WordPress developers start charging more - I will then evaluate other products coming from Ghost, Wix, Weebly, Jekyll, Tumbler, Google, for my entry-level sites maybe even Adobe Muse?

I would do it in a second if WordPress technologies start affecting my bottom line and I know a good percentage of the community would too.

I'm not saying don't do it but I am telling you what I will do if you do.