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I agree with you, Scott. I do wonder whether it would be safer, though, to use one of the more recent Automattic-developed annual themes, though.

Twenty Twelve is indeed very old, but it has the advantage of being a pretty neutral theme, in terms of layout and visuals. Twenty Sixteen https://wordpress.org/themes/twentysixteen/ is a similar concept, but a few years newer.

I agree with Matt that it feels much safer to be pushing a WordPress-developed theme. (Small clarification: the WP software project builds and maintains these themes, not Automattic. But this makes even stronger the argument that we should stick with one of those themes.) For reference, here's screenshots of each of WP's default themes: https://winningwp.com/wordpress-default-themes/

Thanks for sharing that set of WP theme photos, Boone -- that 2005 Kubrick theme took me back!

I think the 2020 theme looks good, as does 2019. I'd probably go with 2020 myself for the default. What do others think?

I'm good with 2020, but also 2021 looks nice, as long as we are going mod.

We talked about this on the community call a bit today and agreed that the 2020 theme would be a good default moving ahead, whenever we can put that in place.