LOL -- best message post I have read all day. +1 to you Lee 
Theme Development has always been a bit of a nightmare, imho, but honestly, it has been a pain in the ass for pretty much every platform I have ever worked with. I haven't found the 7.1 themes all that bad to work with actually and I have done several themes based off of HTML templates I have bought online. I haven't done much with the 7.2 stuff though. To date all I have done is made sure that the theme I have purchased, or the front end devs I have worked with, had adhered to using Bootstrap the way it was meant to be used. That seems to be about 75% of the battle since really, Clay is just overriding bootstrap right?
All that said, I like tools and automation too. I think it would be great to even have a way to feed themes that are done into the tool. So if you have a _ultrasexy theme you want to make available you can load it from the tool and have it listed as one of the options moving forward. By the same token though -- I'm not sure what that means for support or how Liferay could possibly account for all the different ways (sometimes HORRIBLE ways) people create themes.
Theme Development has always been a bit of a nightmare, imho, but honestly, it has been a pain in the ass for pretty much every platform I have ever worked with. I haven't found the 7.1 themes all that bad to work with actually and I have done several themes based off of HTML templates I have bought online. I haven't done much with the 7.2 stuff though. To date all I have done is made sure that the theme I have purchased, or the front end devs I have worked with, had adhered to using Bootstrap the way it was meant to be used. That seems to be about 75% of the battle since really, Clay is just overriding bootstrap right?
All that said, I like tools and automation too. I think it would be great to even have a way to feed themes that are done into the tool. So if you have a _ultrasexy theme you want to make available you can load it from the tool and have it listed as one of the options moving forward. By the same token though -- I'm not sure what that means for support or how Liferay could possibly account for all the different ways (sometimes HORRIBLE ways) people create themes.
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