> All this clutter is followed by adding optional themes as a solution to the complaints people have about the user experience, which, in my opinion, can never

> All this clutter is followed by adding optional themes as a solution to the complaints people have about the user experience, which, in my opinion, can never fix the problems because they go much deeper than the superficial surface, and that is all that a theme can fix. There's one case I've run into where themes are great. That is when one wants to improve a craggy FLOSS interface. Invariably a craggle will ask for an option to turn the ugliness back on and a non-default theme provides the perfect place to do that.