In reply to Andreas Nurbo.

aristah: My whole argument is not that. You need to write JavaScript, you need write configuration for the various controls and where it goes, you need to register the various files that loads the control. You need to write code for how it should be rendered on the frontend. And that is just part of my issues with it.

Your solution to my complaint is that I need to depend on yet another framework? I need to bloat my theme or plugin code with inclusion of other framework since default WP is not enough? Like I said stupid.

chip: Do you mean saving theme_mod stuff or? Because I have not had any issues with Settings API from what I can recall.