Judging by the amount of people in my office who can't handle something as simple as formatting a Wordpress post correctly...I think it's a bit pre-mature. Yes

Judging by the amount of people in my office who can't handle something as simple as formatting a Wordpress post correctly...I think it's a bit pre-mature. Yes, most things have been made far easier, but good design and code skills still trump most of the out of the box systems out there and those themes he mentions are a form of web development, just not the ones making the author any money. The good web developers are generalist developers at heart and will always be looking at the next bleeding edge system/project/new shiny to work on and deliver the new and shiny to customers.