I've actually been thinking of moving away from DH too. Out of curiosity, where did you move to, which host?

Thanks.

For shared hosting needs, I moved form DH to Webfaction years ago. Haven't looked back.

I just made this move a couple days ago after DreamHost silently dropping emails, among their history of outages and server restarts. Comparing the two, I was surprised at how fully featured DreamHost really is, but aside from a few small things the migration has been smooth and I am hoping uptime will be better.

Confused... In your article you state: "Second, I need something that I can develop quickly in without having to write any styles, my current work focuses on results rather than prettiness and UI (for all I know, they wouldn’t mind straight HTML without CSS but that would make working on it hell for me)." Same reason people use the default Bootstrap theme.

Yes, I also iterate in the article that it's quite fine to develop in bootstrap default theme; however, I would appreciate if they could at least download one of the free themes or use a SLIGHTLY modified version of it. Cool thing is, (and I stated this) they can just drop the modified version in whenever they wish to once they're done with development.