@jeffreylees - Yes, *in the context of this article." I agree.
However, there are plenty of WP “developers” who are born on raised on WP and aren’t really aware of the realities beyond WP. Ultimately, they speak (so to speak) and that impacts the broader impression of WP and WP devs in the broader design & dev community. Is it really good that there are people who think “Yeah, I use a framework. I use Genesis” and don’t really understand the WP-centric context (read: misuse?) of the word? You’re suggesting that’s okay. I’m not okay with that.
Fact: That ongoing situation makes some of us, more of us, uncomfortable. If WP wants to run with the big dogs (so to speak) then we need to stop using big dog words just to pretend we’re in a big dog world. We need to stop playing let’s pretend. The reality is framework is the wrong word. Zend, for example, is a framework. Genesis, with all do respect, is no Zend.
Prehaps UI Driven Theme Design & Dev would be more accurate than (a bastardized use of) “framework”?