In reply to Ron.

I think you're wrong.
Basic themes are not something done for the show.

Since TwentyTwelve, basic themes are ways to showcase new features. Differences between TwentyEleven and TwentyTwelve are huge. TwentyTwelve introduced responsive blogs (while TwentyThirteen introduced something no one cared for: brown shades of colors).
Actually, technology didn't get better last year, and so differences between TwentyFifteen and TwentySixteen are mostly behind the hood. That's why apparently it sucks and is just 'fifteen with the sidebar misplaced and the same author face all over the site again and again.
While TwentySixteen sucks, for a very large number of issues (does ANYONE tried it with latin languages? Is li - ke writ i- ng wi - th hiccup -s ) it's instead a perfect showcase of new functions like "responsive images that was already here", "rest api: the beginning of an app store" and "embed post but install a plugin to avoid being quoted by Isis". And don't forget the uncanny ability to turn your blog YELLOW. There are a lotta people that want to stare a YELLOW page. And get blinded.

A lot of people did efforts to give you a very powerfull theme you can use for almost any kind of cat blog. And if you don't like it, just use another theme. And if someone stole your car, keep quiet and buy another one. Keep quiet, 'cause you don't know how to build a car. The day you'll build a car, you can talk about cars. Since that day, let a php coder tell you what's right and what is not.