It seems to me that the marketplace reccomended list isn't really that fair. for instance, modulo, with 70 customizable areas is at the bottom of it. learview and Bildpunkt have been at the top for about a month now. And while they are both great themes, there are so many more great themes, paid and free on the marketplace. I think that a list that cycles a lot would be better for people to discover new themes, and would make it so that great new themes (ie. modulo, simply clean, typography and streamlined - just some themes that were added recently that look good to me) also get some marketshare. Same thing for addons too. (there though a lot of the c5 core team stuff is highlighted which I understand, but on the following pages it would be good.)
Also free things don't get highlighted much. Destyle is a great theme with a lot of cool features, and its free, but its pretty low. Seems a little cheap to me. (though c5 does make money on purchases of others eddons/themes)
What are your thoughts?