I feel that the point the author is making is that this is hurting Django's growth. I'm afraid I agree with that notion. Personally I've looked at Django compar

I feel that the point the author is making is that this is hurting Django's growth. I'm afraid I agree with that notion. Personally I've looked at Django compared to other frameworks and ,for me at least, spending time skinning the default 2005 theme is not well spent. It also makes me think Django isn't keeping current. This is a very dangerous sentiment to have in a world of ever competing web frameworks. I feel that Djano is not marketing itself well. My outsiders perspective, without having ever used Django, is the framework is in decline. That's my outside perspective and I hope it to be wrong. I'd like to reconsider using Django but I'm refraining myself from doing that until I can see change in direction. Maybe it's just not the right framework for me.