I haven’t been an active reviewer in a long time, well almost ever since I joined Envato – 4 years now.

Trusted Author can exist, but it should be earned and not via exchange.

Anyone that wants to review themes should be trained, like I was on the very first beginning of TRT, even though I was not new to WordPress.

Someone above mentioned clients and experience, well that has very little to do with Theme Review unfortunately. We see folks that create themes for a decade and still have one too many issues both with code and design.

I’ve said this years ago and will say it again, once there’s an actual employee, or a contractor that does this 5 days a week, none of this will be an issue. If we can have a paid plugin team that does this (or at least it was), why can’t we have someone for the themes as well? And one person can make a huge impact.