As I mentioned in my comment to Tammie, "Well, it's a start". I still believe the surveys are limited in information collection, but the one thing many can agree on is that change is definitely needed. There's two sides of the Theme Directory, or rather two user groups that feedback is needed from...

1. Theme Developers - who submit themes to the directory
2. The end-users - who browses and downloads themes from the directory.

In turn, I am hoping whatever changes come from all of this, that all parties involved will find a balance of positive changes; including the TRT (I guess could be added as the 3rd group) who also extends their own time to perform the reviews of author submitted themes. I've been asked to be a reviewer, but I think I will stand back for a while and see what happens before I make that choice. In the meantime, I still plan to keep designing and submitting themes.