Open Question for Six Apart

Dear Six Apart people,
Why do your themes for Movable Type still suck so much? Mostly, you have variations on a theme created years ago. Stylecatcher came out in 2005 as a potential solution and it quickly went nowhere.
I can’t speak for all of your users, but I’m guessing there’s a pretty significant contingent of folks like me; people who lack design skills or otherwise don’t want to spend time delving into code to tweak CSS settings. We want visual choices. WordPress has several, including some great options for purchase. They’re easy to implement, often requiring little more than clicking a link for automatic download and activation. Within seconds, you can re-skin your WordPress blog with some really cool themes.
Why the fuck can’t you do that with Movable Type? Take a look at a package I bought from Pro Photo Blogs. It’s awesome and reasonably priced. It offered configurable options that allowed me to create my photo blog on Word Press in a way that I could NEVER do using Movable Type, unless I spent thousands of dollars on a custom template.
As a non-profit hobbyist, the economics just don’t work for me to spend that kind of money on my blog. So am I, and other MT users, doomed to ugliness or time consuming code-wrenching, or are you going to do something about it? Will you create a configurable design tool that isn’t laughable?
There is a market opportunity for you to explore. It doesn’t matter to me if Six Apart addresses this market itself or successfully encourages third party designers to create visually stimulating themes for Movable Type without requiring coding. It’s time that Movable Type stepped up to the plate and met this challenge. WordPress has a community of blog themes that is far and away superior to Movable Type. It’s time that you closed the gap.