Bootstrap has saved me so much time. After using it, I'm wondering why everyone is so interested in having a custom look. Web design at the moment feels like desktop computers before GUI's became standardized. Why does a menu look different on every site? Is that good for users?
I feel a little relief when I hit a "standard" bootstrap site, as I know how it will work. In some ways Bootstrap is that first standard look and feel for the web.
With most sites, the GUI is not the value added part. If it isn't, then why work on customizing it? Make it easy for your users and use a standard.
(I'm certainly not the first to have these ideas. Dave Winer has been talking about it as well.)
You wouldn't go into a restaurant which had the same generic "look". How dull would life be if all buildings have the same generic style; all shop fronts had their name printed in the same size, font and colour; all menus looked alike and everyone drove the same car?
A standardised GUI is not the same as standardised branding.
I feel a little relief when I hit a "standard" bootstrap site, as I know how it will work. In some ways Bootstrap is that first standard look and feel for the web.
With most sites, the GUI is not the value added part. If it isn't, then why work on customizing it? Make it easy for your users and use a standard.
(I'm certainly not the first to have these ideas. Dave Winer has been talking about it as well.)