Seems to me WordPress has put it out there in the developer docs that they are headed in the direction where Themes are pointless, sucks but here are ideas for plugins and open source resources to get there. I'm curious about if it was the chicken or the egg that came first on this. Did Elementor and some of the other variants that let the average joe design their own theme push WP in that direction? or did they have prior knowledge it was headed in that direction? or read between the lines on the dev docs and the State of the Word addresses and look at the open source code and make an educated guess. WordPress is a love hate relationship at best. 90% of it is selling the dream. After navigating the usual semi expensive pitfalls of a newby. By the time I realized that though I was unfortunate enough to have met a great community providing help and inspiration. Then that there were 100 ways I could make money and feel good if I provided a service or product of value in the 10% place instead of selling a dream. I got deeper into PHP, and the double knife side of open source. Went to hey, I see what they are doing here. I don't have to pay for it. Theoretically I can change 5 lines of code and revive some abandoned GitHub project if I'm feeling advantageous, repackage it and sell it as mine? That was only for a few minutes, I got lucky there. I had developed respect for the work of others, and understood the hours and years they spent. I hated Gutenburg at first. Blocks are exploding because WP pushed them and released a volume of documents a bit back. Explaining how to create your own, and go API quite simply. What I found of interest was the experimental part of themes. You can take a piece or part of a theme, keep only it, add another theme, take a piece of it ad Infinium. Love hate, love hate