In reply to acosmin.

The average WP user does NOT CARE about the reputation of ThemeForest, unless it jumps out at them from a Google search. Or perhaps a FB group.

What part of ThemeForest is not going away but is only going to get bigger is so hard for this community to grasp? They offer convenience at a reasonable price, which is ALL that most non-technical users care about.

If we restricted WP to ONLY those with some magical level of technical know-how, then there would be about 23% of next to nothing for usage stats.

This protection of the 'purity and sanctity' of WP as if it's some unicorn traipsing through the forest is downright silly. The internet is the size it is today because of porn, for gosh sake, and without porn the development of all things image/video/audio related would have been set back years. The average user is going to get what they want. If it's not from WP, then they'll go to Wix, Weebly, Squarespace, Medium, Ghost, whatever... it's the democratization of publishing, not the dictatorship of who can publish what.