I'm sorry guys, but you've lost me here. I don't understand how themes like "friendship" or "nature"are precise and technical.
The themes could not possibly have been more broad and open to interpretation, and usable with all themes. As for having a free theme, it never got voted in. If we had been allowed to assign themes as a team, we probably would have had a free theme every third month or so, but that was called undemocratic, so we were forced to complicate the whole process with asking for nominations and putting it to a vote. If we had just picked a theme, things would have been sooooo much simpler. But you can't please everyone, I guess. And the biggest proponents of a democratic process never participated either, so maybe that complaint should have been ignored. Oh well. Hindsight is 20/20.