Back when I started it was horribly complex. There were no docs and nobody to answer any questions. You had two types of themes, just like you do now...the horribly complex and those that are so minimal they are pointless.

It took me a good 3 months to rewrite the default b24 theme to what I wanted. And that was after using it for a while. OTS did change things a lot. It took a lot of things we were doing in the community and standardized it. I still think that OTS2 while refining the OTS standard increased the learning curve to LiteStep.

I really hope that OTS3 really dumbs some more of it down and makes it easier for new users to pick things up. We shall see though.