If Small Potato wants to come back and be the best theme designer in the WordPress world, he'll do it. I have no doubt about that. I've only seen a handful of others that can compete with his design skills.

I don't know how good of a developer he is, and being a great developer is a must when it comes to themes these days. We'll have to wait and see how that plays out.

I'm sure he'll play to his strengths though, which is design.