I do not understand the logic behind a payed wordpress theme. .
The logic is the same as it would be with any other service or product that you pay for. In most cases, paying for a theme means a design with additional features and options, premium support, and probably free upgrades for the life cycle of the theme. Not to mention that some commercial theme creators offer access to other premium products – such as child themes, or an entire theme library – for a greatly reduced fee, or many times even for free.
With other Content Management Systems, the themes are free advertisements for professional work. Themes and styles are a means for artists and developers to showcase their work…
…If only the worthwhile themes have to be paid for, this only creates agatation and a desire for webmasters to go off and create their own themes using existing paid themes as “inspiration”
While I can appreciate how much of your statement is superficially correct, the way you’re thinking about it might need consideration.
You should by no means confuse the term “worthwhile” with the terms custom, unique, or specialized… such as the medieval style theme you’re currently searching for. Just because a theme is free, does not necessarily mean that it isn’t of the same quality as a paid theme. Lack of a feature does not mean lack of quality.
All free themes by any designer who respects the GPL, and who does not contaminate their themes with convoluted licensing agreements or encoded spam links, is producing something that is in essence an “advertisement”, or sample of their work. It’s also a generous contribution back to the WordPress community. And you get to use it for free. Just like WordPress.
But that doesn’t mean that all WordPress themes (or any other platform) should be free.
Here’s an article that I think offers some interesting perspective on the subject, if you are really interested. https://wpcandy.com/thinks/about-35-dollar-themes
