Ok, now I can stop burying the lead so much, haha.
I don’t pretend to know Anvil’s internal priority list, but I know that they are starting to interact with the repo a bit. You can see that with my own PR that’s getting some dialogue as of today:
Anvil is still very much plug and play – this is why the older themes are still there, not to mention I’m sure some people just plain prefer them. Most of the plug and play nature IMHO comes from the ability to get yourself 95+ percent of the way there without any CSS/HTML, which I still think the Beta M3 gets to, though maybe right now only 85-90%.
And while the new M3 is not up to the same standard as the mature themes are, Anvil is releasing it in Beta so we can have the more modern/standard material 3 as they work out the kinks and so the community can provide feedback along the way.
There are also some nice community themes, I particularly like this one:
I certainly understand some of these pain points, but no system is perfect, but Anvil is always improving – I’ve been here for almost 5 years and its so much better than when I started 