#1 Complaint(s) about Business Catalyst missing features

Question

I am posting this as a relative newbie to BC but as a long time ( since1994) web designer and programmer.  I encourage others to respond with their own suggestions for improvement.
1. The lack of responsive templates AND responsive menus    ( I find this so far behind the development curve for current design as to be almost unbelievable.   I normally learn new systems by taking templates and coding apart and putting them back together, but for non-coders esp.,  the system for creating flexible designs and menus is opaque to say the least.  Adobe has a habit of developing products targeted towards designers as end users, but fit only for coders who ALREADY understand and know how to use the proprietary code.  I suffered through 3 iterations of Action Script only to finally give up trying to keep up with all the "improvements" which made it less possible for someone who was not a full time programmer coder to use.  There are no "plugins" or "extensions" to BC that allow the non-dedicated coder to easily implement basic features already readily available with other programs like Word Press, Bootstrap, Drupal, or third party DW makers like Project Seven or DMXzone.   Plus the available documentation with some such like BCGurus is not simple enough to add complex features like responsive menus or designs).
2. Related to #1,  I have not found out a simple example tutorial as to how one might create a DW set of templates that use responsive design and responsive menus, and make them work on BC.  For example, the dynamic menu system in BC will not use PVII JavaScript, and its inbred detection methods invalidate PVII responsive scripts, so that is a no go.  I went through an entire tutorial on BCGurus on creating responsive menus, but found them unhelpful because there was a complete gap on showing how to apply such menu systems to the BC CSS HTML menus.  Yes there was a tutorial sort of, but it did not deal with multilevel responsive menus, only top level, which was useless.  What would be nice was a start to finish (FREE ON ADOBE) of taking or creating a Bootstrap or DW template responsive design with responsive menus and implementing it on BC. 
If #1 were available, it might be simple enough to use it as a base and then edit the CSS of it to one's liking and create basically new sites with the template code, but even the BCGuru templates with responsive menus have so many levels of web apps embedded inside of modules inside of content holders inside of web apps, that trying to use those templates with custom designs (or client specific content!) becomes equivalent to a month long African Safari tracking down the fabled wildebeest of Gnome.
I will not even get into, except mention, the lack of custom coding functionality of BC as compared to PHP/MySql, or some of the basic features missing on the shopping carts available to most eo-commerce sites.
Anyway, that is my rant for the day.

Answer 1

Hi Jeff,
Sorry to hear you are not happy.
I am a bit sad your number one complaint is not having BC make stock templates. I would consider this myself as far at the bottom of my list as possible. I like to consider myself a web profresional and hand code sites to a high standard, so I am not a template fan like many.
Like Trickster said - there are plenty of 3rd party templates if you feel you need to use those to produce BC sites.
I also feel your not going to like releases that will be coming in BC after the migration, if your not a fan of coding. For BC to frow more it needs to cater for us who want to make high end websites and get the bigger clients. So it will have more complex features over time. IT will have more for the designer and Muse I am sure will improve but for BC to hit the top end, it needs those features.
In terms of menus - A menu with no fixed width in your css will always be adaptive to its environment and other elements for design on mobile is really simple CSS using media queries. Even a junior designer at a web agency needs to have good CSS knowledge. Not saying that you dont or are not but just saying it as it is.
People need to stop comparing BC to wordpress really, CMS in name only and quite different systems, freelances and template users may need to consider sticking with wordpress if that is wha they feel is more suiting to their needs.
My question to you is..
Do you want to produce a portfolio of work based of a responsive template or handful of templates?
People say they can make them very different, but I always look at their work and see the same site with slight variations and to a point where you even know what template they used
That is one of the web business discussions about wordpress that has some good articles on across the web.
Personally BC needs to focus on a lot more then spending time making more templates for people.