Tobbe: it depends...if you don't want to do anything really complex, you can make simple themes now, without much work. With some work, you can make some very simple themes that are genuinely amazing (read: Sryo).

Dev: yes, but, as you say, hand-holding just does not work. You can hold their hand until the epiphany of how the configuration works. After that, it will not work, and anyone who needs that is simply not going to be able to do much with LS, because LS and its modules are a bunch of features, which need a human's vision and effort to make into a task-/work-oriented interface.