@JD Hartley -I could see that being a problem if they shipped it with a new theme that was already existing. But if they add a totally new theme, then even if it becomes cliche overnight, it's no great loss.

I'm hoping they drop Classic and Kubrick and ship two new themes with WordPress, a really light framework, and a more finish theme built on that framework. Then the intention is for the themes that ship with it to be merely a starting point, which I think would cause the number of themes to grow.