I was trying to create a Wordpress site the other day and after setting up the web server, installing php and mariadb and installing wordpress and getting it up and running, I could not find one theme that I liked. So, I just picked one and started working with it. After spending a few hours and practically having nothing to show for it, I was like

damn, I could already have a pretty nice template built out with straight up html/js/css, and here I have nothing.