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Although plain themes, they typically can be customized. 🙂 zetaboard and invisionfree themes just had been graphic heavy. Themes today are a little less graphic heavy and go for simplistic.

Perhaps, you're right to some extent, I'd say this is partly a trend and partly due to the increased emphasis on mobile. The more images you have, and the bigger they are, the slower sites load on mobile.