Point made but I think it ignores the underlying reason we have $15 website templates in the market. The crowd on HN should remember that businesses of all siz

Point made but I think it ignores the underlying reason we have $15 website templates in the market. The crowd on HN should remember that businesses of all sizes have had it drilled into them for the last 10 years that they need to be "online" and have a website. Economics 101 Supply and Demand says that this explosion in demand cannot be met by full-service web designers or elite design shops. Not many can afford to pay the few guys that write books on CSS and HTML to handcode them a website. The market met the demand and came up with a method to supply the 80-90% of websites that are simply a presence online. The method was to commoditize the product and churn it out in mass volume. This also happened to RAM, PCs, mobile phones and even houses (in some areas) This is why we have themes, templates, wordpress, HTML for dummies, Odesk, Elance etc. Its just the market meeting the demand.