In reply to Martin.

_s was great inspiration to me, when I just started the theming adventure of my own, because it was a low-entry-level theme.

WP rig looks like a great space ship, but it is still a space ship for the regular WP user.

I hope there could be also an entry-level theme that would take total beginners by hand and without complex work environment setups (n++ and FileZilla) help them start coding a custom theme. That was one of the power plays of WP that made it so wide spread.